The post you are reporting:
Nope, you have to be working to receive working tax credit, Jan. It is earned money.
It is called a working credit, hence it's not an allowance or a benefit.
For example, a pension credit is also part of a pension, not a benefit.
Most pensions come from the State Treasury, so a pension credit is merely a top-up on a smaller pension that is below a minimum amount.
Unfortunately, Barry does not look at the technical wording of payments, and for him, a housing benefit, a job-seekers allowance, a working tax credit (for workers) and a state salary to civil servants are all one and the same: money taken from the "real working people" and given to "the others".
But chief executives of a share company robbing the company by deciding their own wages and bonuses, taking shares from the Company and generally increasing their own remuneration beyond sanity, and thereby rubbing the national economy dry, are "jolly good fellows".
Of-course, they "pay more tax".
If I helped myself to £5 million a year from a share company, I'd also pay 50% tax on it, and claim I "paid more tax".
The reality is, they are lifting the money from a share company by appropriating the dividends (that should have gone to the share-holders) and then paying tax with the Company's money (not their money).
