How can low wage earners afford rent asks MHK

Tue, 21 Apr 2015

Is enough being done to entice people off benefits and into the workplace?

One Onchan MHK doesn't think so and wants to know why this long standing problem isn't being properly addressed.

Questions will be put to the Treasury Minister Eddie Teare in today's sitting of Tynwald.

Peter Karran particularly wants to know how young people earning minimum wage are expected to afford to rent privately: