Child poverty figures in the UK expected to be revised down

Official figures going back to 2018 are set to take billions in under-reported benefits income into account.

Gordon Brown warns Farage will drag UK back into ‘Tory poverty years’

Gordon Brown warns Nigel Farage will drag UK back into ‘Tory poverty years’ - Gordon Brown hit out at Reform’s plan to ...

EXCLUSIVE: Gordon Brown's chilling warning on Reform in major intervention

In an article for The Mirror, former Labour PM Gordon Brown says Reform UK will reverse progress on child poverty by ...

North East has become 'low pay capital of UK', campaigners say

Analysis by the Living Wage Foundation suggests that almost one in five workers in the North East is paid below the real ...

'It is urgent': P.E.I. children living in poverty need more support, says report

Prince Edward Island has made "very, very little progress" on child poverty, says one of the co-authors of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternative's report on youth poverty in the province.

UK politics: Starmer says Reform’s pledge to restore two-child benefit cap in full is ‘shameful’ – as it happened

Reform UK’s Robert Jenrick has announced party’s plans to cut welfare spending ...

Young men more likely to live in poverty in Scotland than elsewhere in UK, 'startling' report warns

The rise is not mirrored by Scots women of the same age, prompting questions as to why men are falling behind.

Do you agree with Gordon Brown that Reform will 'plunge kids into poverty'? Take our poll

Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has warned that a Reform government would 'force children back into poverty' if it brings back the two-child benefit limit ...

Inside UK benefits capital where sex worker mums ‘roam near schools’ & kids go without food yards from Prem stars’ homes

IT has been named the benefits capital of Britain where the welfare payments top £1bn and one-in-five of people are out of ...

Taxpayers funding 'out of control' benefits in Scotland but children locked in poverty

Top think tank says a jobless family in Glasgow on combined benefits could receive £45,500 ...
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Benefit changes to lift children in Falkirk out of poverty

The lifting of the two-child limit in Universal Credit has been welcomed by Falkirk MP Euan Stainbank who says around 1750 children in this area will be lifted out of poverty as a result.

Reform UK would restore two-child benefit cap, Jenrick says in policy U-turn

Treasury spokesperson says disability benefits would also be limited under Reform, but Bank of England would stay independent ...