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disregarding differing amounts of different kinds of income (such as is found in the U.K. supplementary benefits scheme, which is the equivalent of the public assistance scheme), is complex to administer, difficult to understand and at odds with the principle of a means-tested scheme which is to provide
On the other hand, the a safety net of income maintenance.
public assistance scheme provides very little incentive to
self-help. Any additional earnings are taken into account in
There is a
good case for providing a limited and simple easement to encourage those who are not expected to register with the
to. Employment Service as a condition of receiving assistance to Such an easement would be of undertake some part time work. particular value to a widow with young children who wanted to increase her income but did not want to, or could not, go out
to work full time. It would also help an elderly person who
would both like and benefit from a part-time occupation, but would naturally expect some financial return from his efforts.
Accordingly, it is proposed that a single person,
full; in effect, a marginal tax rate of 100%.
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or family member should be able to retain half his earnings
The easement would nut apply, up to a maximum of $100 a month.
however, to earnings received by a person aged between 15 and
+
The
60 who was fit and available for work or already in work. proposal would only cost money for those cases where there wore already earnings which were taken fully into account.
And
that cost might be largely, or even fully, offset by the proposal to encourage some recipients to do some work, and so
reducing their assistance allowance.
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012 ore surplements.
advised un
Council has already
the propos-l in XCQ (77) that
(77) that persons aged over 60 receiv
assistance, who are not receiving any cayment under the
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