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Pathetic Tax Credits, Moronic Government

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  • andrewmp
    andrewmp Posts: 1,798 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    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.
  • dippy3103
    dippy3103 Posts: 1,963 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker I've been Money Tipped!
    Do you get housing benefit ? That would be adjusted.
  • Colin_Hunt
    Colin_Hunt Posts: 5,812 Forumite
    edited 8 December 2014 at 7:57PM
    Weary_soul wrote: »
    I suspect very, very badly.
    Compared to now yes, but actually no, they/we just cut our cloth, oh, and worked.
    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.
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