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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.
October 15, 2020

New research reveals true extent of UK child poverty

IBefore the pandemic in some parts of the country the majority of children were growing up in poverty, once housing costs are taken into account.
February 13, 2020

DWP data shows families being dragged deeper into poverty

The number of children in poverty is rising, and poor families are deeper in poverty than they were just seven years ago, says Child Poverty Action Group
November 12, 2019

New report finds higher housing costs have reduced incomes and increased inequality

Higher housing costs have reduced incomes and increased inequality as the poorest families have borne the brunt of Britain’s 40-year housing crisis, the Resolution Foundation warns in a new report.
October 15, 2019

Deaths of homeless tragic tip of iceberg of suffering, say Methodists

The soaring numbers of people dying on the streets represents the tip of the iceberg of suffering caused by homelessness, say church leaders and mission partners.
June 8, 2019

High rents and fewer employment black spots making millennials less job mobile

Higher rents are reducing the financial gains from moving to better paying parts of the country, and mean that young people are less mobile than they were 20 years ago, according to new research from the Resolution Foundation.
October 10, 2018

Cheapest local homes are out of reach for at least 40% of young adults, says IFS

As long as they had a 10 per cent deposit, in 1996 over 90 per cent of 25- to 34-year-olds would have been able to purchase a house in their area if they borrowed 4½ times their salary (the maximum that most lenders will now allow).By 2016, only around 60 per cent of young adults would have been able to borrow enough to buy even one of the cheapest homes in their area.
September 7, 2018

Poverty likely to increase after Brexit, warns Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Families trapped in poverty will see no Brexit dividend unless the Government changes course on domestic policies, says the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
September 6, 2018

Londoners more likely to be in the red, says debt charity

Londoners are more likely to be struggling with debt than the rest of the UK despite average higher incomes according to a new report from the debt charity Stepchange.
August 7, 2018

Universal Credit 'isn't working for working people'

Child Poverty Action Group says working people claiming universal credit are losing the effects of ‘work allowances’ simply because of the dates on which their paydays and universal credit 'assessment periods' happen to fall.