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Tax Credit Overpayments

The most popular payment introduced by this Government is the winter fuel payment, because poor people benefit from large lumps of money. They do not spend their money weekly. Obviously they need the basic income and income support, or whatever, to get them through the week, but it is things such as the cost of shoes, fuel bills and other big payments that they need help with. Lumps of money from time to time aid poor people enormously—they seem to manage day to day on anything, but big retrospective payments would be a benefit, not a disadvantage.