Bring benefits into New Age, Government told

Wednesday, May 9, 2001

* The Government should develop policies which make it easier for 'New Age' travellers to gain access to paid work and benefits such as Working Families Tax Credit while maintaining their itinerant, community-centred lifestyle, say researchers at the University of Bath. Their report, Making a living: social security, social exclusion and new travellers, published earlier this week, found that only one traveller out of 39 interviewed in the south-west of England had been able to hold down a temporary job and receive the tax credit.