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People living in the UK in receipt of benefits are falling deeper into poverty because benefits are no longer linked to wages!

Gordon Brown has made a pledge to eliminate child poverty by 2020. Benefits need to be raised in line with wages rather than prices to help eliminate poverty in low income, workless households and those households in receipt of incapacity and sickness benefits. A failure to do so will push millions of households across the UK further into poverty and debt.

If benefit levels were linked to average wages each benefit applicant would recieve at least £30.00 per week more. The UK has one of the lowest ratios of benefits to average earnings in Europe! We cannot allow this poverty trap to continue year on year. This flawed policy needs to change NOW!

Current signatories

Frances Dowds, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• lorna pope
• Carey Ann Clarke
• Patricia Mulvenna
• john mcateer
• julie cullen
• Alanagh Rea
• Ian Mather
• annejennette stephenson
• Clare Caves
• anthony cheetham
• Damien Tolan
• John McCusker
• Shan Ashton
• Marina Monteith
• alana poole
• Rae McCusker
• louise tohill
• Annie E Moore
• Brian Semple
• Martin Malone
• Martin McCann
• Sarah Doan
• Eileen Devaney
• Rob Hanlon
• Jane
• Rosemary McCrory
• Seán Mac Brádaigh
• Tom Best
• Vicki Edwards
• Barbara Thursten
• Sally Vaughan
• lisa hutchings
• Mick Furey
• Donna Bradley
• Tim Gatty
• Richard Marx
• Greg Hanlon
• A.Sutton
• Ms.A.M.Limer
• Ms. Mary Rainey
• E. Molloy
• pat austin
• Sinead McCusker
• Kathy Melling
• Nick Wall
• mario barp
• antonia ricci
• Peter Shanks
• cathy hanna
• Paul Kean
• Bernie McSorley
• Clare Cuthbert
• Gemma Harkin
• Julie Ward
• Abdullah Rhodes-Taylor
• Catherine Quigley
• Julie Byron
• V. Lawton
• TiM Bodfish
• sonia martin
• Debra Baines
• Colin David Willems