A significant cause of debt in the UK is the inadequacy of statutory minimum incomes for people in work, unemployed or pensioners. The Zacchaeus 2000 Trust trains volunteer advocates for people who are facing draconian enforcement of rent and council tax arrears against the inadequate minimum wage, unemployment benefits, tax credits, and state pensions, or who are being exploited by door-to-door-lenders at up to and over 300% APR. We also provide a telephone advisory service.

We are petitioning the government for independent and transparent research into the minimum incomes needed for healthy living with the support of 68 Non Governmental Organisations with 10 million members, who include the BMA, the Royal College of Nursing, the Faculty of Public Health at the Royal College of Physicians and the UK Public Health Association.

In addition the General Synod of the Church of England, The Methodist Conference, the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and UNISON who all have unanimous conference decisions supporting the petition. The list also includes Caritas Social Action Network, the Muslim Council of Great Britain, the Children's and the Pensioners' Charities and the National Consumer Council.

We are a Christian Trust committed by our constitution to work with people of good will of all faiths and of none.