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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.

Working-class households are being denied a fair share of the national wealth they create, according to TUC analysis of new official data.

With the deadline for action on its super complaint having passed, Citizens Advice is concerned that regulators have not done enough and customers are still being penalised.

The Government’s housing benefit policy is forcing under-35s into unsafe and inadequate housing that puts many young women at risk, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Southampton, published with Young Women’s Trust.