The Chancellor, Philip Hammond, today outlined his Spring Budget, but failed to provide any relief for families who are feeling the pinch because of a four year freeze to children’s benefits. Today’s figures from the Office for Budget Responsibility estimates that inflation will be 3.9% in 2017/18 – half a per cent higher than previously […]
Rises in the cost of living will outstrip meagre increases in child benefit by 17 times by 2020, a new report from the End Child Poverty coalition has revealed. The coalition’s “Feeling the Pinch” report shows that reductions in the value of benefits, relative to costs of living, are likely to leave a family with […]
The End Child Poverty Coalition today warned that the Chancellor’s announcement of a reduction in the Universal Credit taper won’t be enough to stem a continuing rise in child poverty to the end of this decade. Whilst the change provides an important recognition of the role of Universal Credit in supporting the 2.4 million UK […]
children have been pulled into poverty by the two-child limit to benefit payments since this government came to power
