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December 22, 2020

4.7 million UK homes struggled to afford telecoms bills this year

The Government should explore mandatory affordable broadband tariffs for people on lower incomes, says Citizens Advice.
November 27, 2020

Number of households subject to the benefit cap reaches 170,000

The cap should be suspended during the pandemic so the lowest income parents can meet their children‘s basic needs, says Child Poverty Action Group.
August 7, 2020

Number of households hit by benefit cap doubles since COVID-19

Families with children are more likely to be affected by the cap, with single parents disproportionately affected.
July 22, 2020

UK households experience biggest income shock since mid-1970s

A further income shock could occur if the Government withdraws the recent increase in the generosity of Universal Credit.
June 26, 2020

COVID-19 hit as households were still paying price for last crisis

The COVID-19 crisis hit after the weakest decade of growth in incomes since comparable records began. Years of stalled productivity and poor earnings growth, and deep cuts to working-age benefits had been a further drag on the living standards of many lower-income households.
June 23, 2020

Pandemic exposes inability of low-wealth households to weather economic storm

Lower income households are twice as likely as high income households to have increased their use of consumer credit during the crisis, and are 50 per cent more likely to be saving less than usual.
March 27, 2020

Poorest fifth of households have seen a fall in income

The fall in living standards has been driven by the freeze in the value of working-age benefits and other cuts, such as the two-child limit, slowly taking effect.
March 18, 2020

Debt charity finds few of its clients can build long term resilience

StepChange finds that three in four of those it helps are making progress after 15 months, but few have been able to build financial resilience.
March 11, 2020

Water supply restored to thousands of Detroit families while COVID-19 a threat

Thousands of Detroit families have lost access to clean running water because they could not afford to pay for it.
January 16, 2020

New report finds more lower income households using consumer debt

Rising use of high-cost credit by low-income households leaves them too exposed to financial shocks, says the Resolution Foundation.