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Resolution Foundation study suggests lowest earners are £6,000 a year better off due to policy
Prioritising tax cuts for the better off while letting children bear the brunt of financial hardship is not only cruel, it makes no financial sense
The DWP has today released its Households Below Average Income statistics, which show that child poverty has reached a record high – with 4.3 million children in the UK now below the poverty line.
Today, the Department for Work and Pensions released the latest official statistics on household incomes, poverty and income inequality, covering April 2022 to March 2023.
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One in 10 homes in Oxford failed to meet decent standards, new figures show.
Landlord and tenant groups have welcomed proposals by MPs on the Work and Pensions Select Committee (pictured) to introduce an annual ‘uprating guarantee’ to the Local Housing Allowance (LHA).
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The Government’s English Housing Survey has revealed 3.6 million homes across the country were deemed ‘non-decent’ because they could either pose a risk to residents’ health or life, are in a bad state of repair, are cold or lack modern facilities.
New proposals from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) could see trained investigators checking claimant's bank accounts to see how benefits are spent.
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“Today 4.3 million children are being failed. It is an outrage that 100,000 more children are in poverty – they are being forgotten.
Commenting on the publication today (Thursday) of the latest official figures on UK poverty, which show that the number of people living below the poverty line in working households is 1.6 million higher than in 2010, TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak said:
New Households Below Average Income (HBAI) data for 2022-23, released today by the DWP, sheds fresh light on the cost of living crisis, with households across the income distribution experiencing a fall in real household incomes during this period, due to an inflation hit of 10 per cent.
We’ve taken a look at the Government’s English Housing Survey which has unveiled shocking issues with housing in Birmingham
A QUARTER of homes in Bradford failed to meet decent standards, new figures show.
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This article references data which is available in the UK Data Service collection:
Active Lives Survey