Abolish statutory and exgratia redundancy payments

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In light of the post above perhaps it should read "Abolish statutory redundancy and tax all related exgratia payments through the PAYE system"

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In a country that is borrowing €400M a week to keep up with spending, 'wants' should be cut before 'needs'. We just don't have the money to pay all items that people currently feel they are entitled to - even if they feel they have been paying for them for years. There are undoubtedly people getting redundany payments who don't really need them as they find jobs fairly quickly and/or have spending levels that can be met with their reduced income. Whereas, in theory, means tested welfare benefits should be needed by all recipients. So given a choice between cutting something that is needed by all recipients and something that is only needed by some recipients, I would abolish statutory redundancy before I would suggest any big cuts in social welfare (although cuts are needed there to).
Ex-gratia payments should be taxed through the PAYE system as well.
 
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