“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.’
Instead of addressing the real problems faced by people, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s budget has delivered the usual cocktail of austerity, low wages, higher taxes for the masses, and tax cuts for corporations and the rich.
‘Lee Anderson MP demonises the poor whilst eating meals we subsidise for him, living in a home we heat for him & paying for the journeys he makes’
