Questions

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• Title:	Impact of minimum wage
  Question type:	Written
  Asked by:	Mike Higgins
  Answered by:	Minister for Social Security
  Question date:	04/03/2014
  Reference:

  1240/5(8171) WRITTEN QUESTION TO MINISTER FOR SOCIAL SECURITY BY DEPUTY M.R. HIGGINS OF ST. HELIER … Answer Data collected by the States Statistics Unit via the average earnings …

• Title:	Imposition of sanctions in the income support scheme
  Question type:	Written
  Asked by:	Geoffrey Southern
  Answered by:	Minister for Social Security
  Question date:	04/03/2014
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  Does the Minister believe that the use of sanctions can simply worsen hardship, as has been highlighted in the United Kingdom in a report from certain bishops of the Church of …

• Title:	Differentials between Jersey and the UK consumer price levels
  Question type:	Written
  Asked by:	Geoffrey Southern
  Answered by:	Minister for Social Security
  Question date:	18/03/2014
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  Does the Minister accept that the current level of the minimum wage is inadequate to support an individual let alone a family and produces in-work poverty which in turn is only …

• Title:	Protection of employees regarding the use of exclusivity clauses
  Question type:	Written
  Asked by:	Geoffrey Southern
  Answered by:	Minister for Social Security
  Question date:	18/03/2014
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  Answer I am not aware of any recent figures regarding minimum hours contracts in the UK, but given the recently published revised estimates of the number of zero hour contracts …

• Title:	Income Support and Child disability allowances
  Question type:	Written
  Asked by:	Geoffrey Southern
  Answered by:	Minister for Social Security
  Question date:	04/03/2014
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  Will he state how many of the 55 households with children claiming Personal Care (PC) components level 3 do so because of the child’s disability and how many of those are in …

• Title:	Processing of income support applications
  Question type:	Written
  Asked by:	Geoffrey Southern
  Answered by:	Minister for Social Security
  Question date:	04/03/2014
  Reference:

  Does he believe that this period can contribute to income support applicants getting into debt and, if so, what measures does he propose to reduce any such hardship …