Kate Green MP thanked Paul Nicolson, along with some of our partners, in her speech on minimum income levels during the report stage of the Welfare Reform Bill.
The government has tabled an amendment to prevent incomes falling below a set level in the case of the government reclaiming overpaid benefits. While Z2K and others think that enforcing such debts against such incomes is unfair and regressive, we were pleased to see the government finally indicating that it accepts there is such a thing as too small an income.
What do you think? Is this a step in the right direction?