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Barry, what about people who work part-time and receive some working tax credit?
If it were done away with, they'd either have to go into full-time employment, or sign on.
Part-time employment has risen significantly, and many mothers do part-time employment too, but they also have to fetch their children from school and cook dinners.
Part-time on a minimum wage requires out of necessity a working tax credit and even some housing benefit.
I'm still convinced you have not seen through what you are proposing here, and the dire consequences such a mistake would have, getting rid of the working tax credit. Many hard-working people would be flung into poverty, they would HAVE TO sign on. They would have to live of 100% housing benefit, child benefit and jobs-seekers allowance, and that does mean POVERTY!
NO-ONE would work part-time at the minimum wage if they got no working tax credit and no housing benefit, because they would be working for much less than on JSA, which is already poverty.
You surprise me, Barry. This is simple economics in its most essential form.