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Commenting on the new national minimum wage (NMW) rates that come into force today (Thursday), TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady said:

date: Wednesday 30 September
embargo: 00.01hrs Thursday 1 October 2015

Commenting on the new national minimum wage (NMW) rates that come into force today (Thursday), TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady said:

“Today’s increase in the national minimum wage is welcome but hardly cause for euphoria.

“It is hard to celebrate when many low-income families will see this and future gains wiped out by the Chancellor’s cuts to tax credits. And when under-25s will be excluded from the new supplement that comes in next April.

“Giving with one hand and taking more with the other is not the way to make work pay. Slashing vital in-work benefits will serve only to push more working households into poverty.

“We won’t have a recovery for the many by taking an axe to the welfare budget.”

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