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jamanda
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 13, 13 1:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Where will not for profit organisations fit in?

Rob R



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 13, 13 2:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Jamanda wrote:
Where will not for profit organisations fit in?


Aren't they covered by NMW legislation?

Mistress Rose



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 13, 13 2:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I think this is a nasty piece of legislation in its entirity, and is aimed at cutting costs rather than helping people get into reasonably paid work.

The comments made on large companies paying minimum wage rather than a living wage are most important, as is the legislation that allows some of these same large companies to take people for 'work experience' and not give them any training, but get them doing routine work while not paying them.

I am glad that our company has got beyond that stage, but we are trying to get it build up slowly, and for the first few years, if any of us had been on those benefits, we would have had to shut and 2 people be looking for work.

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 13, 13 3:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Mistress Rose wrote:
The comments made on large companies paying minimum wage rather than a living wage are most important, as is the legislation that allows some of these same large companies to take people for 'work experience' and not give them any training, but get them doing routine work while not paying them.

Of course if the minimum wage is raised, that makes it eve worse for small businesses struggling with the Universal Credit.

Rob R



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 13, 13 4:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

JohnB wrote:
Mistress Rose wrote:
The comments made on large companies paying minimum wage rather than a living wage are most important, as is the legislation that allows some of these same large companies to take people for 'work experience' and not give them any training, but get them doing routine work while not paying them.

Of course if the minimum wage is raised, that makes it eve worse for small businesses struggling with the Universal Credit.


And for large businesses struggling with wages.

Hairyloon



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 13, 13 4:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

lettucewoman wrote:
You report your income for that month, less any expenses you have paid out that month. The remainder will be treated as your 'income'. You cannot carry forward any business revenue, even if you have regular, foreseeable expenditure coming up in the future.

Can you not fudge it with some creative accounting?
Separate yourself from the business (or create a separate business on paper) and have one loan money to the other.
Loan repayments are presumably classed as expenses.

JohnB



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 13, 13 5:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Hairyloon wrote:
Loan repayments are presumably classed as expenses.

Not according to the article: "Repayment of capital or interest on a loan is not a permitted expense".

Hairyloon



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 13, 13 6:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

JohnB wrote:
Hairyloon wrote:
Loan repayments are presumably classed as expenses.

Not according to the article: "Repayment of capital or interest on a loan is not a permitted expense".

Well that is just silly then... never mind, we will just have to be a touch more creative...

Rob R



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 13, 13 7:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Hairyloon wrote:
JohnB wrote:
Hairyloon wrote:
Loan repayments are presumably classed as expenses.

Not according to the article: "Repayment of capital or interest on a loan is not a permitted expense".

Well that is just silly then... never mind, we will just have to be a touch more creative...


Or disruptive. They've barely started the trial yet, never mind set the process in stone. They can only manage with the resources they have, which isn't a lot.

Hairyloon



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 13, 13 7:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

It is supposed to come into force on the 29th.

Rob R



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 13, 13 7:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Only for new claimants in the 'pathfinder' trial in the North-West. They're starting off with a tiny sample size so that they can administer it manually should the systems fail, as they did at the RPA when they brought in Single Farm Payments ten years ago.

john of wessex



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 13, 13 7:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

The 'pathfinders' also is basically for unemployed single people with no housing costs............

Rob R



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 13, 13 7:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

john of wessex wrote:
The 'pathfinders' also is basically for unemployed single people with no housing costs............


Exactly. If it works when it goes live in October, it'll be a miracle (and they know it).

jamanda
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 13, 13 7:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Who are "they"?

Rob R



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 13, 13 7:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

The people who are faced with the task of implementing it, civil servants & ministers.

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