The Poor Can't Pay is running a campaign to help voters to ask all the candidates who are running in their constituency about their position on:

- reversing the €1/hour cut in the national minimum wage within six months of taking office

- never voting for any measure which further reduces the basic welfare payments

- reviewing the way in which the universal social charge impacts on low paid workers

The last Government made people who are on low incomes and living in poverty pay an unfair proportion of the costs of our economic crisis. They cut basic welfare rates in two successive budgets, they cut the national minimum wage by €1/hour and extracted money from small paypackets through the universal social charge. 

Many TDs who had promised to 'protect the vulnerable' voted for these measures.

If you want to vote for a candidate who will make a promise not to vote for measures which make the poor pay for the crisis you can ask them their position here.