Work and Pensions Committee examines tax credit reforms

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Witnesses

Monday 26 October 2015, Wilson Room, Portcullis House

At 3.45pm

• Paul Johnson, Institute for Fiscal Studies
• William Elming, Institute for Fiscal Studies
• Torsten Bell, Resolution Foundation
• Adam Corlett, Resolution Foundation

The Committee questions the representatives on the following topics:

• The impact of the April 2016 tax credit cuts (in isolation and in the context of other welfare measures in the Summer Budget), and the National Living Wage
• The winners and losers and their characteristics
• The extent to which the National Living Wage will compensate individuals receiving lower tax credit payments
• The distributional impact of these measures, individually and combined
• The scale of the financial gains/losses to households and what influences this
• The quality of the analysis produced by the Government to support their proposals
• Other options for achieving savings from the tax credit system that will mitigate the impact on the least well off
• The implications for work incentives and the Government's wider objectives in welfare reform

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