It seems like you're combining three different things here.
1. Benefits trap: where the State gives you an incentive to stay at home rather than work. This is clearly insane, and I'm very glad this government is going to (hopefully) fix it. I'm doubly glad that the fix is not penalty-based, but is incentive-based; that is, that you'll keep getting benefits at the marginal areas, rather than having benefits taken away below the line.
2. The level of the minimum wage: this has nothing to do with the benefits trap, as there'd still be a benefits trap no matter what level this is set at.
3. The inequality of incomes in the UK: again, this has nothing to do with the benefits trap, as there'd still be a benefits trap no matter what the inequality levels were.
So let's stick to one thing at a time, yes?
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