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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Amy Gibbons

Raising benefits in line with wages ‘would push 200,000 children into poverty’

PA Wire

Two hundred thousand more children will be pushed into poverty if benefits rise in line with wages rather than inflation, new analysis suggests.

Campaigners have warned “U-turning on children’s futures cannot be an option” as ministers face calls to stick by the former chancellor’s pledge to uprate the welfare payments in real terms next April.

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