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The true characteristic of sums paid under a settlement of a claim for underpayment of wages because of a failure to observe equal pay legislation is compensation for past lost income and must therefore be taken into account, as income, when making a retrospective calculation of the recipient's past entitlement to means-tested benefits, according to the Court of Appeal in Minter v Kingston Upon Hull City Council.
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