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MargaretR · 13-04-2010, 16:54

National Assistance (now Income Support) once had a payment limit known as
The Wage Stop.
This was a very complex calculation that we civil servants dreaded having to do.
The basis of it was the wage of a local council labourer.

Applying it ensured that where a large number of children would cause the 'normal' calculation to provide for a high rate of payment of National Assistance, then this Wage Stop would limit it to what that family could receive if the 'breadwinner' was employed as a council labourer.

After studies into 'child poverty', that rule was abolished in 1975

http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/c...wage-stop-rule

13-04-2010, 16:54	#9
MargaretR God Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: c l m Posts: 12,362 Blog Entries: 4 Liked: 518 times Rep Power: 68671	Re: Somehing very wrong in this country National Assistance (now Income Support) once had a payment limit known as The Wage Stop. This was a very complex calculation that we civil servants dreaded having to do. The basis of it was the wage of a local council labourer. Applying it ensured that where a large number of children would cause the 'normal' calculation to provide for a high rate of payment of National Assistance, then this Wage Stop would limit it to what that family could receive if the 'breadwinner' was employed as a council labourer. After studies into 'child poverty', that rule was abolished in 1975 http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/c...wage-stop-rule __________________ Last edited by MargaretR; 13-04-2010 at 17:01.