Sentences with phrase «people on low incomes»

These loans are for people on a low income who urgently need to buy an essential item like a fridge or washing machine.

Experts are worried that the freeze will cause a major hit to living standards among people on low incomes in the coming months.

The final insult was her proclamation of how unfair it was that working people on low incomes had disproportionately faced austerity, rather than the wealthy.

Many people on low incomes will lose money they can ill afford to each month as their contributions could more than double or even triple.

The loans are designed to help people on lower incomes purchase essential goods and services.

And it is very difficult to justify taxing people on low incomes to pay for the child benefit of those earning so much more than them.

It won't help a single person on a low income.

There is a pet clinic on - site for local people on low incomes.

We also offer a reduced membership fee for people on low income of # 15.

The report also warns that those looking forward to increasing the government's presence on the web may be forgetting the three - quarters of socially excluded people and half of people on low incomes who do not have access to the web.

Large numbers of people on low incomes will still lose out, and even those the Chancellor says will be compensated are simply being given their own money back.

The aforementioned ComRes / ITV News poll found widespread support for taking people on the lowest incomes out of tax altogether and funding it by levying more tax on those at higher incomes.

Lib Dem plans to take people on lower incomes out of income tax altogether were confirmed, with 880,000 people taken out of income tax.

(iii) Working Family Payment may be payable to employed persons on low income in addition to One - Parent Family Payment.

«What we've been doing as a nation is subsidising the most affluent people when actually you'd think we'd be subsidising people on lower incomes,» Mr Laws told Newsnight yesterday.

He told BBC Radio 5 Live's Pienaar's Politics programme yesterday: «You can rest assured the government is very keen for us to make progress on this matter... I'm hopeful overall we'll make progress so that people on the lowest incomes meet that level.

«Holding down benefit increases to 1 % is better than a total freeze, which would have been disastrous for people on the lowest incomes already having to spend a higher proportion of their income on essentials when rents, food and heating bills are all rocketing.»

Such a significant loss of desperately - needed affordable homes would mean more people on lower incomes stuck on council waiting lists all over England — and for generations to come.

«We now have evidence that despite all the rhetoric from Labour, for 13 years now they've actually presided over a tax system which has seen an acceleration in equality, a decline in social mobility and is actually hammering people on low incomes, forcing them to pay more tax to the taxman than people at the top.

Throughout the post-war period, successive governments» approaches to the problem of housing for people on low incomes fluctuated between building more social housing and providing support for rent.

«The difference if you're talking about people on low incomes is the Conservative insight is that dignity is not just about how much money we've got.

And Boris Johnson has said he is «sure» that the chancellor can come up with a way to protect people on low incomes from tax credit cuts.

Do we want a culture of hate and scapegoating that will more than likely result in working - class people on low incomes being blamed for their own poverty?

«Since 2015, I and my team have responded to 20,000 requests for help and support, while people on low incomes have seen their quality of life get dramatically worse with the roll out of universal credit and benefit cuts.»

Londoners living in private rented homes will save hundreds of pounds a year, as well has benefiting from minimum standards for accommodation, that starts to root out the appalling conditions in which people on low incomes are forced to live.

The No Interest Loans Scheme (NILS ®) provides people on low incomes access to safe, fair and affordable access to credit.

However, for reasons explained below, it is doubtful whether people on low income — particularly young people, who can not afford to pay for legal advice, will be able to formally or informally resolve employment disputes without free legal advice.

Family Law provided do - your - own - divorce clinics for people on low incomes determined to the work on their own.

Those disadvantaged groups include people on low incomes, many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and those in more remote areas who find themselves at a distance from fee - for - service oral health care.

Priority populations, such as people on low incomes, people with disabilities and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people often experience higher levels of poor health than other groups.

Maybe you are currently a Conservative — and you see your vote being used to punish working people on low incomes and to punish business by toying with exit from Europe?

And too many people on low incomes who do the right thing in saving for their retirement find those savings clawed back through means - testing.

Accenture said the smart plug could help people on low incomes who pay directly for power.

The charity uses its funds to help people on a low income (eg Income Support or Family Credit) towards the cost of having their dogs and cats spayed or neutered.

Removing this unfair tax and replacing it with a fair local income tax will massively shift the tax burden away from the poor - and take many people on the lowest incomes out of tax altogether - those who don't pay income tax but are hit by the council tax.

«Collecting this extra amount on 31 January will increase the burden of debt on people on low incomes, and adversely affect their position under the new Universal Credit (as additional costs would be included in January each year for which no relief would be given).

«They've got huge dividends, huge profits and it can make a real difference to people on low incomes in London», he said.

Anyone who really cares about improving the living conditions of people on low incomes can't afford to ponce around making a show of being «principled» and watch their party haemorrhage votes as a result, critics suggest.

The No Interest Loans Scheme (NILS ®) is designed for people on low incomes who need safe, fair and affordable access to credit.

It is intended for people on a low income, to help with buying things needed for a new baby.

«For people on low incomes, and for those who need to contact their local doctor or hospital regularly, these costs can soon build up.

«On pensions, what's important is that people on low incomes can make more informed decisions on defined contribution schemes.

«You have to net off the big increase in the personal allowance which goes to working people on lower incomes, that helps them earn more money tax free,» he said.

The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group is concerned that people on low incomes may be unable to benefit from welcome freedoms to convert their annuities

The reality is that you're more likely to find a swan and unicorn pasty in your local Greggs shop than see the attitude of Cameron's government be anything other than sly and vindictive when it comes to people on low incomes.

In 2010, the net percentage who believed the government «understands the concerns» of people on low incomes, compared to those who did not, was -24.

A DWP spokesman responded: «Council tax benefit helps over five million people on low incomes, including over 2.5 million pensioner households.