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Record number of households unable to afford basic essentials such as food, toiletries and heating

An estimated 7.4 million low-income UK households were not able to afford at least one essential item in the last six months, an anti-poverty organisation said

The Independent UK

Support schemes stymied by ‘dysfunctional dynamic’ between governments – charity

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation said many areas of Scotland are missing out on support from the UK Government’s Pride in Place Programme.

Evening Standard

Welfare bill should be brought down by boosting employment – not cutting benefits, Labour told

The universal credit bill could be cut by £10bn through tackling unemployment, researchers find

The Independent UK

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Focus on jobs, not benefits, to cut welfare bill, says thinktank

Hitting government’s target of getting 80% of workers into jobs would reduce cost of universal credit by £10bn

The Guardian - UK

Over 4 million working households now struggling to afford a decent life, research finds

More than four million working households across the UK are not earning enough to afford a “decent life”, according to new research.

The Independent UK

MPs to vote on lifting two-child benefit cap after Reeves Budget pledge

Children’s doctors, teachers, health visitors and anti-poverty charities have called on MPs to vote in support of ending the policy

The Independent UK

The Guardian view on deepening poverty in the UK: a catastrophic Tory legacy has cut millions adrift

Editorial: A new Joseph Rowntree report underlines the corrosive impact of years of anti-welfare rhetoric. A reframing of the debate is urgently needed

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Number of people in 'very deep poverty' in UK hits record high, research shows

About 6.8 million people — almost half of all of those in poverty — are living in "very deep poverty" in the UK, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation warns.

Euronews

Record number of people in UK live in ‘very deep poverty’, analysis shows

Joseph Rowntree Foundation finds problem is ‘deeper and more damaging than at any point in the last 30 years’

The Guardian - UK

Britain’s ‘poorest still getting poorer’ as Labour urged to act on ‘record high’ levels of poverty

Poverty will remain stuck at a high level without change, researchers warn

The Independent UK

What kind of country puts its pensioners ahead of children in poverty?

As long as a third of children are living below the poverty line, the government cannot justify keeping the pensions triple lock, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

Benefits uplift still unlikely to cover cost of essentials, say experts

Anti-poverty charities have warned an above-inflation rise from April would still see many people struggling with the costs of heat, rent and energy.

Evening Standard

Worried about rising bills and getting by? Keir Starmer has the answer: try chewing a flag!

The PM wants to talk about patriotism when the issue that is really affecting people is the cost of living. If he doesn’t wise up, that dissonance will sink him, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

The Guardian - UK

Scotland on course to miss child poverty reduction target

Scotland is on course to miss a child poverty reduction target by a “large margin”, a report has warned

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The Independent UK

‘Near impossible’ for poorer families to afford food and bills as UK faces decade of falling incomes, report warns

The findings will pile further pressure on the chancellor to scrap the two-child benefit cap long blamed for keeping children in poverty

The Independent UK

England’s social care system is at ‘breaking point’, government warned

The number of unpaid carers increasing by 70 per cent over the past two decades, a report revealed

The National (Scotland)

Seamus Logan: Labour's Victorian approach to welfare is shameful

A NEW report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) highlights the lack of progress made by the Labour Government on key measures of hardship ...

Evening Standard

Survey finds larger lower-income families most likely to borrow for essentials

Research suggests the cost of living is still ‘grinding down’ many families a year on from Labour’s general election victory.

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The Guardian - UK

Britain’s ‘medieval’ health inequality is devastating NHS, experts say

Exclusive: Health service estimated to be spending £50bn a year on effects of deprivation and child poverty

The Independent UK

Mapped: Where Labour’s benefit cuts will hit the hardest

New analysis shows which regions will see the most lose out from Labour’s benefit cuts

The National (Scotland)

'It's a gamble': Economist gives verdict on UK Government benefit cuts

The UK Government is unlikely to see a boost in employment rates on the back of making cuts to disability benefits, an economic expert has said.

The National (Scotland)

UK Government warned not to 'push more families into hardship', at poverty summit

THE UK Government has been warned not to “push even more families into hardship” by imposing austerity cuts, ahead of a poverty summit at…

The National (Scotland)

Rachel Reeves 'rejects' data showing 'everyone is getting poorer' under Labour

RACHEL Reeves has rejected data from a leading poverty charity which suggests the average family could be £1400 a year worse off by the end of the…

The Independent UK

All UK families could see average living standards fall by 2030, forecast warns

Sir Keir Starmer’s government could be first to see living standards fall since 1955, warns Joseph Rowntree Foundation

The Guardian - UK

All UK families ‘to be worse off by 2030’ as poor bear the brunt, new data warns

Keir Starmer has been dealt a fresh blow to his living standards pledge in advance of the spring statement

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