Welfare reform will push 250,000 into poverty, Government’s own assessment says

Welfare cuts will plunge quarter of a million into poverty by the end of the decade, the Government’s own impact assessment said (Alamy/PA) -

Welfare cuts will leave an estimated quarter of a million more people, including 50,000 children, in relative poverty after housing costs across Great Britain by the end of the decade, according to the Government’s own impact assessment.

The Chancellor claimed the “broken” welfare system must change and help more people into work, otherwise “we are writing off an entire generation that cannot be right”.