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[email protected] · June 23rd 13, 05:02 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at
09:22:19 on Sun, 23 Jun 2013, remarked:
You don't have to be wealthy not to qualify for benefits. The maximum you
can earn that is disregarded is the same £5 per week that it was forty
years ago.

But wouldn't earning £6 a week just taper your benefits, rather than
cancelling them altogether?

Yes, but the taper is steep enough for a couple of hundred a month to lose
JSA. If there were housing and Council Tax benefits then something might
still be paid at higher income levels.

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Colin Rosenstiel