Welcome to the Pornocracy (Part One): the UK Economic Miracle | 27 comments (27 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Just when you thought things were looking up.. (none / 0)

well there's this

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/child-and-working-tax-credits-statistics-finalised-annual -awards-2012-to-2013

but the rise won't be available in there till the end of next May, (15 days after the Election) as it appears only to be published once a year and the last one was end of May this year

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon Jun 23rd, 2014 at 07:21:47 AM EST
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Re: Just when you thought things were looking up.. (none / 0)

I'd looked at that. But it breaks everything down by family. You can feel the political pressure to produce "useful" ie feedable to the media government-friendly data. I didn't find a total working tax credit paid out p.a., nor a breakdown employees/self-employed. Perhaps I didn't look hard enough (there's the final page).

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Mon Jun 23rd, 2014 at 08:00:34 AM EST
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Re: Just when you thought things were looking up.. (none / 0)

In fact I looked at the most recent one.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Mon Jun 23rd, 2014 at 08:02:41 AM EST
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Re: Just when you thought things were looking up.. (none / 0)

46,000 are maybe not in the tax credits figures. they are on a seperate "run your own business scheme

Esther McVey: 46k businesses set up through New Enterprise Allowance so far - around 2k per month over last year
— DWP Press Office (@dwppressoffice) June 23, 2014