To: Rt Hon Mel Stride MP
End the Squeeze on Universal Credit.
Stop the Tories from finding ways to avoid taxes from those who can afford to pay them. Universal Credit to help people out of poverty And reform the minimum wages to mean that people can climb out of the poverty trap.
Tax the rich to pay the poor, to provide a universal safety net so that people can keep warm in the winter, feed and cloth their families, be treated by the NHS in a timely fashion to avoid pain and discomfort, that every one of us is or has paid their national insurance for.
Tax the rich to pay the poor, to provide a universal safety net so that people can keep warm in the winter, feed and cloth their families, be treated by the NHS in a timely fashion to avoid pain and discomfort, that every one of us is or has paid their national insurance for.
Why is this important?
The Government appears determined to find new ways to squeeze the poor to give their rich friends a cut in their taxes. Universal Credit is squeezing individuals into food banks or into debt as they try and feed and cloth themselves while this government finds ways to cut taxes.
> We have half the population in fuel poverty.
> We have wages that have fallen behind inflation for the last 12 years!
Those who are forced to ask for help get a pittance from the state forcing people into debt and despair while the government tries to find new ways to provide tax cuts to the rich.
Those who try and earn their way out of the situation find they loose 55p out of every £1 they are paid even though they have to pay to travel for work. Once the children have flown the nest there is no allowance before this happens. As a result families see family allowance go, the loss of maintenance from ex spouses and the loss of the dispensation for a person who is earning a pittance on part time work. If the children remain at home and are also unemployed, this drop can amount to several hundred of pounds a week in their cumulative income. Why tax someone on poverty wages 55% and yet tax high earners only 40%?
Those workers who struggle to get full time work can find that the cost of travel and increasing transport costs can prevent them escaping and entering the world of work. If they can only find low paid work, the earnings less the costs to get to work means they can end up paying to work.
If someone is an unpaid carer for an adult family member, for example, they are still expected to look for work. We should not be forcing people on benefits to pay to work rather than work for pay. Slavery was thankfully abolished, why are the Tories trying to reintroduce the idea.
Do you think its right to put the squeeze on those in receipt of Universal Credit to fund cuts in taxes?
Do you believe that we need to help others less fortunate than ourselves?
Or common humanity?
Why should the poor fund the richer getting richer?
Please end this and ensure that those on Universal Credit have the means to survive.
> We have half the population in fuel poverty.
> We have wages that have fallen behind inflation for the last 12 years!
Those who are forced to ask for help get a pittance from the state forcing people into debt and despair while the government tries to find new ways to provide tax cuts to the rich.
Those who try and earn their way out of the situation find they loose 55p out of every £1 they are paid even though they have to pay to travel for work. Once the children have flown the nest there is no allowance before this happens. As a result families see family allowance go, the loss of maintenance from ex spouses and the loss of the dispensation for a person who is earning a pittance on part time work. If the children remain at home and are also unemployed, this drop can amount to several hundred of pounds a week in their cumulative income. Why tax someone on poverty wages 55% and yet tax high earners only 40%?
Those workers who struggle to get full time work can find that the cost of travel and increasing transport costs can prevent them escaping and entering the world of work. If they can only find low paid work, the earnings less the costs to get to work means they can end up paying to work.
If someone is an unpaid carer for an adult family member, for example, they are still expected to look for work. We should not be forcing people on benefits to pay to work rather than work for pay. Slavery was thankfully abolished, why are the Tories trying to reintroduce the idea.
Do you think its right to put the squeeze on those in receipt of Universal Credit to fund cuts in taxes?
Do you believe that we need to help others less fortunate than ourselves?
Or common humanity?
Why should the poor fund the richer getting richer?
Please end this and ensure that those on Universal Credit have the means to survive.
