Low-income families with one main breadwinner, single parents and out-of-work couples with children are likely to see their living standards stagnate or fall in the coming five years, according to
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Around 120,000 children whose parents are working on low incomes will be cast adrift if the UK Government changes its definition of child poverty, the social justice secretary (for Scotland)
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Child poverty is something the Conservatives do not want people to talk about which is why they are renaming the child poverty act the Life Chances Act, Labour has claimed.
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Almost two-thirds of children in poverty are living with parents who work, according to a new study. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) found that, while levels of absolute child
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The first Conservative-only Budget for almost 20 years was “regressive”, taking “much more” from the poor than the rich, a respected economic thinktank has found. The Institute for Fiscal Studies
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George Osborne has used the first Tory-only Budget for nearly 20 years to introduce a “living wage”, dramatically declaring that “Britain deserves a pay rise”. Hailing a new “higher wage,
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A four-year freeze for working-age benefits and restricting tax credits to two children are among key parts of a blueprint to slash at least another £12 billion-plus a year from
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Scotland would be able to mitigate Conservative cuts to tax credits or other welfare under Labour and SNP plans to give Holyrood the power to create new benefits and top
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The four UK children’s commissioners have joined forces to urge the Government to halt its programme of benefit cuts to prevent more young people being pushed into poverty. The commissioners
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New figures which reveal 210,000 children are living in relative poverty in Scotland after housing costs have been paid, have been condemned as ‘unacceptable’ by Social Justice Secretary Alex Neil.
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