‘We’ve been hearing a lot over the last year-and-a-half now about the cost of living crisis, as though it’s fallen out of a clear blue sky.’
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“I am currently on maternity leave and can’t afford to stay at home for the full 39 weeks due to not receiving any extra help from tax credits as this is my 3rd child.”
‘It cannot be understated how traumatic, dangerous and dehumanising life on the streets is’
48% of children in BAME families are growing up in poverty as are 44% of children in lone-parent families.
We have called for the Local Housing Allowance to be unfrozen so that benefits are more closely aligned with the rate of rent in an area
UK living standards have fallen behind those of other industrialised countries
The policy was heralded as a ‘powerful ambition to eradicate poverty’
Living standards are expected to undergo the largest two-year decline since records began in 1956-57.
‘Not a dickie bird on public sector pay.’
