The Households Below Average Income figures for 2015/6 released today show that child poverty now stands at the highest level since 2009/10, with 4 million children in the UK now living in relative poverty. The figures also show that in-work poverty continues to rise, and now stands at 67 percent. Regional child poverty rates are […]
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 […]
children have been pulled into poverty by the two-child limit to benefit payments since this government came to power
