Chapter 13: Poverty and the distribution of income and wealth

1. occurs when income is below a specified proportion of average income (15)
6. a failure to raise personal tax thresholds in line with inflation that brings the low paid into the tax net (10)
7. households in similar circumstances paying similar taxes and receiving similar benefits (16)

2. the unemployed are trapped in unemployment as they are better off living on benefits than in a low-waged job paying income tax and NIC's, and losing benefits claim. (16)
3. an income paid by the state to benefit recipients and financed from taxation (8)
4. redistributes income from the rich to the poor on the basis of need (14)
5. a tax in which the poor pay a higher proportion of income in tax than the rich (18)
8. when the low paid are trapped in relative poverty by having to pay income tax and NIC's at the same time as losing welfare benefits (11)

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