GMB Guide
GMB: experts in the
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Council Tax Benefit
World of Work
Extended Payment of
Council Tax Benefit
Income Support
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Housing Benefit
B
ack in the 1930s, the brilliant economist John Local Housing Allowance
Extd Payment of Housing Benefit
Maynard Keynes observed that capitalism is a great
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Crisis Loans
system for producing and delivering goods and services,
Budgeting Loans
Energy Efficiency Grants
but argued that the electorate should recognise that it has
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Mortgage Interest Run On
serious flaws which, if not tackled, would wreck the system.
Legal Aid
Community Care Grants
The first flaw is that it usually ends up making the rich
Tax Credits
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Job Grant
richer and the poor poorer. This has been especially
Child Maintenance
Child Maintenance Premium
true in recent years, and GMB has battled for a more Reduced Earnings Allowance
Statutory Sick Pay
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Statutory Maternity Pay
further affliction is its tendency towards a ‘boom and bust’
Statutory Paternity Pay (SPP)
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cycle: a situation that has not disappeared, despite New
Statutory Adoption Pay (SAP)
Maternity Allowance (MA)
Labour’s claims to the contrary.
Sure Start Maternity Grant
Industrial Disablement Benefit
Most pressingly, it is a system that cannot guarantee
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Industrial Injuries Benefit
everyone a job – a factor that is becoming increasingly
Hospital Travel Costs Scheme
Funeral Payments
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obvious as the country slides into an economic recession.
Bereavement Payments
Bereavement Allowance
GMB has argued for the provision of a financial safety net Page 14
Widowed Parent’s Allowance
for workers on short time, as well as for those without a War Widow’s Pension
Cold Weather Payment
job or who are sick or injured, to ensure that they have
Free Passports
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access to a decent living.
Child Benefit
Bus Passes and Coach Travel
Some employers use state benefits to keep employees’
Free TV Licence
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wages low and to boost their own profits. GMB is against
Senior Railcard
Health Costs
taxpayers’ money being used in this way, so if you think
Pension Credits
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State Pension
this is the case with your employer, contact your local
Child Trust Fund
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GMB workplace representative or regional office.
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