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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
John Stevens

600,000 more children thrown into poverty as Tories cut Universal Credit payments

An extra 600,000 children were plunged into poverty in a year as ministers got rid of extra support for families on Universal Credit, it has been found.

Research by the End Child Poverty Coalition revealed the total number of kids living in poverty soared to 4.2million in 2021-22.

Some 71% of these were living in households where at least one adult works.

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