One in five low paid retail workers claim working tax credits

Our forthcoming research for the British Retail Consortium was given a sneak preview this morning in a wider report looking at the impact of the minimum wage and technology on front-line workers. This included our segmentation of front line workers, based on extensive data analysis from ONS sources. The main result is to highlight the difference between low paid workers and recipients of tax benefits: actually only around a fifth of those receiving low pay (defined as up to 20% above the minimum wage in previous years) are also recipients of working tax credits. See page 12 of this report.

29th February 2016