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Pathetic Tax Credits, Moronic Government
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Housing_Benefit_Officer wrote: »When I first started working in benefits there was no such thing as tax credits. How did people survive back then without their free money.
They wouldn't have, they would have had to earn more money, employers might have had to pay more money as a result.0 -
Do you get housing benefit ? That would be adjusted.0
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Compared to now yes, but actually no, they/we just cut our cloth, oh, and worked.Weary_soul wrote: »I suspect very, very badly.
If you were single and on the dole you were knackered, so most people got a job, staying with your mam until you were twenty five was very rare for a bloke.0
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