Minimum Income Proposals

[gWaPito]

So tax relief is a handout?

I always thought Tax Credit was like tax relief. And if you don't earn you don't get it. Not really a "handout" in the more usual sense of the word.

When my ex wife got about 15 or thereabouts quid a month in tax credit a good few years back I always saw it as tax paid by me (us) that was given back to us by the revenue boys. Not a handout. More akin to tax relief than anything, which in my book isn't a handout either.

So I still say, why 26000 grand a year? Why that high? I can't see any justification for it that is either fair or appropriate.

I dig what you saying lastlid but, the powers that be deem child/family tax credits as public purse.
This is why those of you on a joint annual of less than 25k cant claim it until your partner has ilr.

[Arthur Little]

This is why those of you on a joint annual of less than 25k cant claim it until your partner has ilr.

... they're the very ones who need it MOST!!

[gWaPito]

... they're the very ones who need it MOST!!

I agree, Arthur