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Shop workers and hospitality staff will be £1,000 worse off under Tory National Insurance rise

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Published date13 September 2021
Publication titleDaily Record, The / Sunday Mail: Web Edition Articles (Scotland)
Analysis by the party found thenational insurance hikecombined with planned cuts to Universal Credit and plans to freeze the income tax personal allowance would take £1,130 away from an average hospitality worker.

Laboursaid many other workers, including those that steered the country through the pandemic, would be impacted with those including social care workers, nurses, teaching assistants and supermarket staff losing more than £1,100 a year.

The party found that the average band 5 nurse would lose £1,159 next year, while a social care worker would lose £1,108, a supermarket worker £1,040 and a teaching assistant £1,040.

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Boris Johnson has insisted that raising national insurance is “the right, the reasonable and the fair approach”.

But the Labour leader accused the Prime Minister of “putting the very wealthiest ahead of working people who have to pick up the bill”.

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