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Child Poverty Action Group

January 8, 2021

One million Universal Credit claimants have deductions from their payments

Households are living on less than their assessed need due to deductions for an advance to cover the five week wait, finds Child Poverty Action Group.
December 22, 2020

35,000 households to be hit by benefit cap at Christmas, says CPAG

The benefit cap is increasing child poverty, and in the context of a coronavirus recession is transparently nonsensical and wrong, says Child Poverty Action Group.
December 14, 2020

New survey shows deteriorating living standards for low-income families due to COVID-19

A new report shows low-income families with children are even worse off now than they were in the summer, almost nine in 10 families reporting a significant deterioration in their living standards because of the pandemic
December 3, 2020

Two in five children under the poverty line not eligible for free school meals

Free school meals will not end child poverty but they will go a good way towards protecting children from hardship and helping struggling families to stay afloat, says CPAG.
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.
October 22, 2020

Over half of Welsh children in poverty not eligible for free school meals

Over 70,000 children are not eligible for free school meals, mainly because their parents are in low-paid jobs which take them over the eligibility threshold, says Child Poverty Action Group.
September 1, 2020

Low-income parents rely on Child Benefit for household basics

Child benefit has lost 23 per cent of its value since 2010 because of freezes and sub-inflationary uprating.
August 26, 2020

Toll of lockdown on low-income families revealed in new report

The Bishop of Durham says it is imperative that the Government implements the recommendations in this report.
May 5, 2020

Church of England calls on government to suspend the two-child limit

A survey of families affected by the two-child limit has found widespread evidence of hardship.
April 17, 2020

London charities call for six emergency support measures for children during COVID-19 crisis

Without additional support for families, child poverty in London which is already the highest in the country, is going to get worse, says an alliance of organisations.