Treasury minister to ask Tynwald to postpone changes
Treasury needs to look again at the impact of making families receiving Employed Person's Allowance work more hours to continue to receive the benefit.
That's from Treasury Minister David Ashford, who will ask Tynwald in January to delay the changes by six months.
Currently, parents working part time will have to work for longer each week to continue to qualify for EPA from April.
A lone parent whose youngest child is aged 13 or over currently has to work 16 hours per week in order to receive EPA, but this will increase to at least 24 hours each week once the changes come into force.
For couples whose youngest child is aged six or over, that increases from 30 hours to 48, while those whose youngest child is under six years old will have to do 35 hours weekly.
Mr Ashford wants to push that back to October 2022 while further assessments take place:
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