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Originally Posted by jaysay
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A few months ago you started this thread
http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...tml#post806048
I replied then thus -
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