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MrsE_2

skcollobcat10 wrote: »

Katrina

When CTC first came about not talking about you but just in general, there where a lot of people working full time hours eg. 40 hours per week. A lot of them then realised that they could reduce their hours to minimum 16 hours a week instead, and then found that the CTC made their money up to near enough what they were earning full time. This only worked of course if you had children, or were a single parent with children. It also worked better if your pay was near to the minimum wage or unskilled, not if you earned a higher hourly rate. One of my friends was the manager of a nursing home, he employed nursing care assistants, cleaners etc, etc. Most of them worked 40 hours per week. When the CTC came out, the vast majority who he had working for him including the cleaning staff all went to 16 hours per week. He was livid one month when doing the wages, a cleaner who had 7 children and did the 16 hours per week brought home take home pay more than him in that month, surely this is wrong. I personally feel that this government brought out CTC because they want the majority of families to be financially dependent on them, whereas if they were taxed less at source they would have more money in their pockets.

Apart from making their voters dependent on them, do you think it was to do with creating more jobs (1 job becomes 2 or even 3 part-time jobs) & playing creatively with the unemployment figures?