28th October, 2021.
Right … the UK’s had it’s Autumn Budget, yesterday: the statement from the UK’s Chancellor about government spending.
It’s the usual mixed bag of things.
Those of us who drink … ? Will welcome the alterations to the various alcohols duties announced.
Many will welcome the money for various public departments.
Many of us receiving Universal Credit will be angry about the removal of the twenty pound uplift handed out during the Pandemic: and were looking for that to have been made permanent.
Just so you know? Universal Credit features a taper: an amount of money you lose, per pound, for every pound you earn.
The last time I worked, I lost sixty-three pence (63p) for every point in my pay packet.
What Mr Sunak did, yesterday, was reduce the taper by eight pence.
Were I working? I would now lose fifty-five pence (55p) in every pound.
I’d get to keep more benefit.
That, and the rise in the national living wage are something I welcome: in theory.
It’s great … if you’re claiming both the benefit, and working.
For me and many others, who aren’t working?
It’s useless.
Thanks for nothing, Mr Sunak.
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