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Self-employed builders, taxi drivers and hairdressers to lose £1K a year due to benefit cuts




Self-employed workers could be up to £1,000 out of pocket due to Tory cuts.

Hairdressers, builders, plumbers and taxi drivers are just some of the workers who may lose out as Universal Credit comes in.

Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, Owen Smith, said ‘it beggars belief’ that 800,000 low-paid, self-employed workers will be impacted.

He said: ‘It beggars belief the Tories are slashing support for low-paid, self-employed workers by nearly a billion pounds a year, more than £1,000 each.

‘If Universal Credit was in chaos before Iain Duncan Smith left the Government, it’s now in meltdown.

‘The very people it was meant to help – workers struggling to make ends meet, some earning even less than the minimum wage, will be hit the hardest.

‘Labour is demanding the new Secretary of State perform his second U-turn in as many weeks.

‘This time, on Tory cuts to Universal Credit that will act as a work penalty for the self-employed and cost two million families £1,600 a year.’

An estimated 770,000 self-employed workers currently rely on tax credits.


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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

It beggars belief that 800,000 self-employed people need tax credits.

Maybe they should be asking themselves why they sell themselves so cheap.

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IDFIMH

Oh dear will benefit cabs have difficulty retaining their drivers and undercutting the rest of us

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

Don't think iv'e ever had a Tax Credit...who merits one of those?

Maybe the one I know with two kids and a mortgage who works about 16 hours a week?

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Former taxi driver

One lad round here had a letter from the Tax Office wanting to know his real earnings, he's a bit miffed because he's got a new Taxi on HP, a 4X4, new Caravan plus his missus doesn't work. He claims WTC and puts down he only works 30 hours a week.

It's good that he's both thrifty with his cash as well the facts.

He didn't like it when I told him that the HMRC have full access to Credit Files, DVLA files and bank accounts. His face dropped a mile.

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

No, I can't get anything.

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Grandad,

You need to cook your books like the others do.

It's not for rich people...

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

You need to come out sometime and smell the coffee........

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

You have hit nail on head.

I'm often amazed at exactly how much financial info can be found on someone who is trying to hide their income/expenditure.

The authorities have access to everything with your name on. Absolutely everything.

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IDFIMH

So someone sells themselves short and everyone else pays.

In your manor Delta drivers work for peanuts, that keeps the rates down for everyone else in the trade, and the taxpayer picks up the bill.

All the time the owners of the firms live a life of luxury.

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IDFIMH