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Community Charge: APS Lawson minute for Culpin ("Housing Benefit and Unemployment/Poverty Traps") ["this is a benefit and not a tax/NIC problem ... an inescapable consequence of targeting benefit on the neediest"] [declassified Feb 2018]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: T640/824 f3
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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 8pp
Themes: Social security & welfare, Society, Public spending & borrowing, Taxation, Local government, Local government finance, Community charge (“poll tax”), Executive