Living Wage: Welfare Tax Credits

(asked on 17th September 2015) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of how many people will lose their working tax credits as a result of being paid the national living wage.


Answered by
Damian Hinds Portrait
Damian Hinds
Minister of State (Education)
This question was answered on 12th October 2015

The information requested is not available.

The government's target is for the National Living Wage to reach over £9 by 2020, which means that a full-time worker currently on the National Minimum Wage will be earning over £5,200 more per year.

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