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National Assistance. National Assistance was the main means-tested benefit in the United Kingdom from 1948 to 1966. It was established by the National Assistance Act 1948 and abolished by the Ministry of Social Security Act 1966, which established the Supplementary Benefit in its place. It replaced earlier provisions under the Poor Law.
As the UK's biggest public service department it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. It is the second largest governmental department in terms of employees, [7] and the largest in terms of expenditure (£187bn).
Housing Benefit is a means-tested social security benefit in the United Kingdom that is intended to help meet housing costs for rented accommodation. It is the second biggest item in the Department for Work and Pensions ' budget after the state pension, totalling £23.8 billion in 2013–14. [citation needed] The primary legislation governing ...
The Making Work Pay tax credit was a personal credit provided in tax years 2009 and 2010 to U.S. federal income taxpayers. [1] It was authorized in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 . The credit was given at a rate of 6.2 percent of earned income up to a maximum of $400 for individuals or $800 for married taxpayers.
The Research and Development Expenditure Credit (RDEC), introduced in 2013, is a UK tax incentive designed to encourage large companies to invest in R&D in the UK. Companies can reduce their tax bill or claim payable cash credits as a proportion of their R&D expenditure. The initiative builds on the existing R&D Tax Credit scheme which has been ...
r 15(1A) a worker who is given suitable sleeping facilities is not doing work when not ‘awake for the purpose of working’. r 25, ‘output work’ does not easily translate to an hourly rate (e.g. work paid by results or work paid by commission). The employer must either pay minimum rate for each hour actually worked or ‘fair piece rate’