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📊 Our latest
#UKPoverty
report launched this morning.
🔍 14.4 million people were living in poverty in 2021/22 – and our analysis shows that millions of people would need thousands of pounds just to escape poverty.
(1/5)
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It is morally indefensible that
@trussliz
has given tax cuts to the richest in our society and yet has not committed to uprating benefits by inflation, as promised by
@RishiSunak
.
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🚨 NEW from JRF:
This is a
#MiniBudget
that has wilfully ignored families struggling through a cost of living emergency and instead targeted its action at the richest.
It leaves those on the lowest incomes out in the cold with no extra help to get them through the winter. 🧵
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Destitution is when people cannot afford to meet their most basic physical needs to stay warm, dry, clean and fed.
Our new report reveals a shameful rise in the number of people experiencing destitution in the UK.
Here are the key findings 🧵
#DontIgnoreDestitution
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🗣️ Almost two thirds of people in destitution live with a chronic health condition or disability. Cutting people’s eligibility for benefits won't help.
The PM's speech was an irresponsible war of words on people who already aren’t getting enough support.
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There is no dignity or respect here. The best way to loosen the grip of
#FoodPoverty
is to boost incomes directly through
#UniversalCredit
and Child Tax Credit.
#FreeSchoolMeals
3 days of food for 1 family...
Just not good enough.
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Today we have come together in a joint open letter to
@BorisJohnson
as part of a 100-strong coalition to urge the Government not to cut
#UniversalCredit
by £20 a week and to
#KeepTheLifeline
🧵
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🚨 Our new research shows deeply concerning figures on destitution in the UK, with around 2.4 million people having experienced destitution in 2019, a 54% increase since 2017. The social security system must be strengthened to turn back this rising tide.
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Handing out food, even if the food parcels were better, is not the best way to tackle food poverty because the problem is poverty. What people need is money – not restrictive vouchers or leftover food.
@Helen_Barnard
now on
@talkRADIO
with
@JuliaHB1
#FreeSchoolMeals
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🚨 NEW: 600,000 people will be pulled into poverty due to inaction at the
#SpringStatement
We've modelled the impact of the failure to increase benefits in line with inflation, along with the 1.25% ⬆️ in National Insurance and change to the earnings threshold at which it is paid
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A thread on the power of insight to drive change 🧵👇
Last week, as a result of
@BootstrapCook
's campaign on rising food prices faced by those on a low income, the
@ONS
restarted the publication of inflation rates by income bands
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NEW: The impact of the cost-of-living crisis on low-income families is the gravest issue our country faces.
We, along with 70 other charities, have written to
@trussliz
and
@RishiSunak
for their reassurance that families will receive sufficient support.
🧵
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Today, the government is publishing a consultation on the future of PIP.
🗣️ Almost two thirds of people in destitution have a chronic health condition or disability. People in this position shouldn't be used as a political football. We need action, not rhetoric from politicians.
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We live in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, but right now 90% of households receiving
#UniversalCredit
are going without essentials like food, utilities and vital household goods.
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It's unacceptable that
@RishiSunak
has decided to cut
#UniversalCredit
incomes by £20 a week in six months' time. This means support will be whipped away at the same time as furlough ends and will lead to hundreds of thousands more people being pulled into poverty.
#Budget2021
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"Proceeding with this cut isn’t just wrong for the six million families affected, it’s wrong for the economy too. This is not money that is saved up, it is spent, and it is spent in our local shops and on local services."
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Eight metro mayors have urged the Government not to go ahead with the planned cut to
#UniversalCredit
.
They said that the blow to household incomes will take more than £2 billion out of their local economies.
We must
#KeepTheLifeline
this October
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If the uprating doesn't happen, this will be another devastating blow for people on low incomes who are already making heart-breaking decisions between heating their homes and feeding their families.
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🚨 NEW 🚨 Our annual report
#UKPoverty2023
reveals 1 in 5 people are living in poverty, including a heart-breaking 3.9 million children.
The report lays bare the inadequacies of our social security system, with many unable to afford the essentials. 👇
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📽️ OUT NOW - our new short film
#ThisIsPoverty
. Watch and share this poignant documentary which demonstrates the injustice of poverty in the UK. Together we can change this and
#SolveUKPoverty
.
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🚨 NEW JRF analysis of today's Ofgem price cap and new Cornwall Insight forecasts
Energy bills will fast outstrip people’s incomes to the point where paying them becomes fantasy
Thread🧵👇
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Last year nearly 4 million people in the UK experienced destitution, including 1 million children. The number of people experiencing destitution has more than doubled in the last 5 years.
❌ A 2p cut in National Insurance will not help those who need it the most
#Budget2024
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The Government may have an economic theory, but today it has proven it has no understanding of the economic reality facing millions across the UK.
We've published our response to the
#MiniBudget
in full, here 👇
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Today MPs will debate the £20 uplift to
#UniversalCredit
. If this lifeline is cut as planned, 200,000 more children will be plunged into poverty overnight. After a decade of deprivation, it's only right that the Government
#KeepTheLifeline
and extend it to legacy benefits.
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At today’s Treasury Questions a number of MPs across the political spectrum expressed their concern at the impending cut to
#UniversalCredit
.
In response, Chancellor
@RishiSunak
said that he doesn’t accept that people will be forced into poverty as a result of the cut
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"I live in a private rented house. My rent is £700 a month and I earn £700 a month from my job, so that just leaves me and my two kids with my tax credits for everything else."
Read why working parents are struggling to repel the rising tide of poverty
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Out now: UK Poverty 2019/20. Our leading independent report explains how poverty's grip is holding back too many people, in too many places across the country. But we can change things - find out how we can level up our uneven nation:
#SolveUKPoverty
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📢
#GeneralElection
will be on July 4th
We live in a country where almost four million people have experienced destitution in a single year, a million of them children.
We need to hear plans to urgently tackle this hardship from every political party.
#GE2024
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"The anxiety and the level of sick I feel in my stomach... no one could have my mail bag and not feel fundamentally depressed at the moment."
@MartinSLewis
The Government must increase benefits in line with inflation to protect those most at risk of hardship from rising prices
🗣️'I’m sorry the frustration is coming out.. but I have to be blunt, the country needs more help.'
@MartinSLewis
gives
@tonylivesey
an impassioned account of the messages he gets from those struggling to afford the increases in energy bills.
Listen ⬇️📻
@BBCSounds
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From April, Universal Credit will be set at £85 a week for a single adult, but there’s a significant gap between this and living costs. Our research shows that in order to cover the essentials, it must be increased to at least £120 a week.
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NEW >
@jrf_uk
state of the nation report out today. Here’s what’s happening to 14 million people living in poverty in the UK:
#solveukpoverty
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"An emergency supply of food cannot resolve someone’s financial crisis."
The government must ensure that benefits match the real rise in living costs as an immediate first step to protect people who are struggling to afford the basics
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Around 3.8 million people experienced destitution in 2022, a 61% rise since 2019. ⬆️
This included around 1 million children, an 88% rise since 2019. ⬆️
The no. of people experiencing destitution has more than doubled in the last 5 years, while the no. of children has tripled.
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📺📰
@AndrewMarr9
on the ‘deeply shameful’ extent of poverty in the UK.
This level of hardship can’t be ignored.
It’s time for our political leaders to tell us their plan to turn the tide on poverty.
'Poverty, the true picture all around us, is a national disgrace.'
'I hope you agree that this is deeply shameful.'
@AndrewMarr9
reflects on national poverty levels following the release of the Jacob Rowntree 2024 UK Poverty Report.
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Families on low incomes can’t wait for the promised benefits of economic growth to trickle down into their pockets.
The energy price cap fixes bills at a level already unaffordable for many and was never going to be enough to solve the problem for those on the lowest incomes.
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Mounting evidence, including today's research from
@NAOorguk
, shows that there is "nothing compassionate" about
#UniversalCredit
. If it's to act as a lifeline in these turbulent times, the Government must remove the
#5weekwait
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.
@GordonBrown
: "Poor people in Britain can no longer rely on social security for the minimum they need to prevent their descent into extreme poverty."
We need a strong social security system, we can't afford to cut
#UniversalCredit
.
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At today's
#PMQs
@BorisJohnson
expressed his sympathy for families facing the
#UniversalCredit
cut.
The cut will cause immense, immediate and avoidable harm. The Government must take the opportunity to
#KeepTheLifeline
and give families the stability and support they need
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“This is not living, this is not even surviving.”
Our new research on the shocking rise in the number of people experiencing destitution in the UK on
@Channel4News
.
It’s time for political parties to tell us their plans to end destitution.
#DontIgnoreDestitution
"I live off £30 a month."
A Joseph Rowntree Foundation report estimates the number of people experiencing ‘destitution’, which it defines as having a very low income or having to go without basic supplies, has more than doubled in the last five years in the UK.
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🧮 We've done our
#maths
& it doesn't add up!
The current basic rate of
#UniversalCredit
falls £35 *per week* short of the actual cost of essentials like food, utilities & vital household goods
👉Join us in calling on the Govt to guarantee
#OurEssentials
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The Princess of Wales
@KensingtonRoyal
is right, the early years are "building blocks for life" but our latest report
#UKPoverty2023
reveals that 1 million children under 4 are living in poverty.
This is shameful in our wealthy nation and avoidable.
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The annual poverty figures published today show 600,000 more people, half of them children, are living in Absolute poverty, the Government's preferred measure, rising for the 2nd year in a row.
The Government has failed to protect the most vulnerable 🔽 .
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As Chancellor, Rishi Sunak confirmed that benefits would be increased in line with inflation.
Now, as Prime Minister, he must keep this promise.
Here’s why it’s essential that Rishi Sunak does the right thing and ensure benefits are uprated in line with inflation. 🧵👇
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This morning, around 5.5 million families across the United Kingdom are waking up £1,040-a-year worse off due to the Prime Minister imposing the biggest ever overnight cut to social security. 🧵
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A new consultation on PIP launched by DWP Secretary Mel Stride this evening says, "many people have a good assessment experience." But what is it like to go through it?
We've heard people's actual experience. The government should hear them too 🔽🧵
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✊ We are proud to join over 90 charities uniting to call on all UK party leaders to guarantee
#OurEssentials
for families on low incomes.
❗ We must link the basic rate of
#UniversalCredit
to the actual cost of essential goods like food & utilities.
📝👉
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Today, we have come together with over 50 organisations to urge the Government to
#KeepTheLifeline
and make the £20 increase to
#UniversalCredit
permanent. It’s vital that the Government does not whip this lifeline away and plunge 700,000 people into poverty overnight.
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The planned cut to
#UniversalCredit
, which is the biggest overnight cut to social security support since WW2, is set to pull half a million more people into poverty, including 200,000 children. The government must
#KeepTheLifeline
to give our families the stability they need.
Government has not tried to assess impact of universal credit cut on poverty or inequality, ministers admit
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🗣️ "When it comes to British domestic politics, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - that matters as much as this," says
@AndrewMarr9
on
@LBC
.
We agree.
💼 It's time for our politicians to provide answers on how they will address
#UKPoverty
.
#PMQs
'Poverty, the true picture all around us, is a national disgrace.'
'I hope you agree that this is deeply shameful.'
@AndrewMarr9
reflects on national poverty levels following the release of the Jacob Rowntree 2024 UK Poverty Report.
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We're deeply concerned that providing security for low-paid workers was not a priority in today’s
#QueensSpeech
. Government has repeatedly committed to
#LevellingUp
, but with 1 in 8 workers trapped in poverty many will be in disbelief there was no
#EmploymentBill
announced today.
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Our analysis shows that 413 constituencies in Great Britain are set to see over 1 in 3 working age families with children hit by the cut to
#UniversalCredit
and Working Tax Credit.
We must
#KeepTheLifeline
and protect our most vulnerable families across Great Britain
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Failing to uprate benefits in line with inflation, when combined with personal tax changes made at the fiscal statement, would be a harmful act of historic proportions.
It would be profoundly regressive and morally indefensible.
Here's why 👇
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Rising prices impact everyone, but soaring energy bills will hurt low-income families, whose budgets are already at breaking point, most.
The Chancellor must respond to the scale of the challenge and increase benefits in line with inflation in the Spring Statement
Bloody depressing
@thismorning
phone-in again. So many people at crisis point regarding energy bills - including those with v high usage due to disabilities (home ventilators, oxygen concentrators, elec wheel chairs etc).
I am nearly OUT OF TOOLS to help
Govt must intervene
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The Government should have combined its decision to put money into the pockets of high earners with a decision to increase benefits early.
Those on the lowest incomes have already run out of options – forced to cut back on food and energy, go into debt and into arrears.
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📊 Our latest
#UKPoverty
report found a staggering 14.4 million people were living in poverty, including:
📌 8.1 million working-age adults
📌 4.2 million children
📌 2.1 million pensioners
💼 Politicians must present a plan to turn the tide on deepening poverty.
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Great to see
@Keir_Starmer
calling for the Government to
#KeepTheLifeline
of the £20 uplift to
#UniversalCredit
in his speech today. The Government can do the right thing, keep families afloat and prevent plunging 200,000 more children into poverty.
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🚨 JRF responds to the
#SpringStatement
The Chancellor has abandoned many to the threat of destitution, not economic security,
@dminnes
🧵👇
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As we look to rebuild our society, ‘level up’ and ‘build back better’, it would make no sense at all to weaken social security support by cutting
#UniversalCredit
this October.
#KeepTheLifeline
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.
@heidiallen75
argues that policy must not be static. It cannot be right that the Government erodes support available to low-income working families when the cost of living is rising.
#endthefreeze
is essential to right the wrong of
#ukpoverty
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"For these people, £20 a week makes a huge difference, and could be the difference between falling into extreme poverty or remaining just above that poverty line"
@srpoverty
has said the planned cut to
#UniversalCredit
will trigger an explosion of poverty
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Cutting benefits in next week’s
#AutumnStatement
would exacerbate hardship for millions across the UK, pushing families further into the depths of poverty.
Despite falling inflation, the picture isn't improving for those hardest hit by the cost-of-living crisis.
🧵Here’s why:
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💼 This budget will benefit households with larger incomes, leaving the poorest in society short of the essentials when they needed supporting the most.
🗣️Our Chief Executive
@PaulKissack
on the decisions made in today's
#Budget2024
🔽
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The Prime Minister did not commit today to fulfilling the pledge to uprate benefits in line with inflation when asked by
@bbclaurak
Watch why that decision, combined with tax changes at the fiscal statement, would be profoundly regressive and morally indefensible.
👇
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📢 "Destitution and hardship cannot be a part of a decent society."
📦 Foodbank usage soaring
🚸 Children turning up to school hungry
🏥 Malnutrition and ill health growing
What should politicians be doing about this?
🗣️ Our CEO,
@PaulKissack
answers below 👇
#OurEssentials
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NEW: 🚨 A letter signed by over 100 organisations committed to ending poverty urged Rishi Sunak to honour the promise he made this spring to increase benefits in line with inflation, and to do so now rather than waiting until April.
Read the letter 👇
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🗣️ The annual poverty figures published today confirm that the Government failed to protect the most vulnerable from the cost of living crisis. Absolute poverty, their preferred measurement, has risen for the 2nd year in a row.
💥 This rise is as big as we've seen for 40 years.
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No one should be prevented from being able to vote because of their income level.
But the Government’s
#ElectionsBill
risks disenfranchising around 1.7 million voters living on a low income.
🧵👇
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📈 For 6 million people living in very deep poverty, on average doubling their income would be necessary to escape poverty.
👫🧒🧒 This equates to an additional £12,800 a year for a couple with two children under 14.
Our
#UKPoverty
report shows hardship is deepening.
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NEW:
@jrf_uk
analysis shows that if the Government reneges on the pledge made in April to uprate benefits in line with inflation as usual, it will amount to the largest permanent deliberate real-terms cut to the basic rate of benefits in history.
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OUT TOMORROW
#UKPoverty2020
. Our leading report on the nature and scale of poverty in the UK looks at the position of people trapped in poverty going into the
#COVID19
pandemic and considers what impact it's had. As we've seen today, it's never been more important.
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Our analysis has shown that the cut to
#UniversalCredit
risks plunging 500,000 people into poverty including 200,000 children.
The cut will also pile unnecessary financial pressure on around 5.5 million families, both in and out of work.
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📈 Today, the energy price cap rises, council tax increases and national insurance contributions increase next week.
❌ Households on the lowest incomes will be hit hardest.
⬆️ Benefits must be increased in line with current inflation levels 👇🧵
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"We treat people with dignity and respect when we give a food parcel over but ultimately that can never replace the dignity of having enough money." Gary Lemon of the
@TrussellTrust
highlighting the importance of cash over food parcels when it comes to tackling
#foodpoverty
.
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We are so pleased to see
@MarcusRashford
looking for answers beyond free schools meals and listening to families who are struggling to get by.
It was only a matter of time...
I knew the voucher scheme was only a sticking plaster and now that I’ve had the opportunity to spend time with the most vulnerable families we need to switch focus to the bigger picture...
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🗣️ This is not what an economy returning to full health looks like
Latest stats from
@TrussellTrust
show record-breaking emergency food parcel need with more than 3.1 million provided last year. Representing a 94% increase compared to 5 years ago 🔽🧵 1/3
After a tough period with the pandemic and the energy shock, today’s figures are proof that the economy is returning to full health.
And more important than that, the IMF say our long term prospects are the strongest of any major European economy over the coming years.
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Destitution has ⬆️ across the UK, but particularly in London, Wales and the West Midlands.
In Scotland destitution ⬆️ much more slowly.
Newham, Manchester and Middlesbrough were the local authorities with the highest rates of destitution.
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📊 Our latest
#UKPoverty
report found a staggering 14.4 million people were living in poverty, including:
📌 8.1 million working-age adults
📌 4.2 million children
📌 2.1 million pensioners
🗣️ “This is social failure at scale,” says our Chief Executive
@PaulKissack
.
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Nobody should go without food, yet food insecurity in the UK is rising 📈
Great to see
@AnushkaAsthana
on
@itvpeston
explain our analysis 🔽
💥 7.2m people were food insecure in 2022/23
💥 26% of UK Black households are food insecure
💥 30% of social renters are food insecure
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It is simply unthinkable that the
#EnergyPriceCap
of £3549 announced today can go ahead without significant Government intervention.
Millions more will face the threat of bills they simply can't pay, homes they can't heat and stomachs they can't fill.
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Almost two thirds (62%) of people who experienced destitution in 2022 reported a disability or chronic health problem. 🏥💊
This has increased – it was 54% in 2019.
#DontIgnoreDestitution
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Nearly 3/4 of destitute households receive income from benefits. 💷
This shows that after a decade of cuts and freezes our social security system is so inadequate it is not protecting people from destitution – and in too many cases pushing them into it. ✂️
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The planned cut to
#UniversalCredit
, which is the biggest overnight cut to the basic rate of social security since WW2, is set to pull half a million people into poverty, including 200,000 children.
We must keep protecting people. We must
#KeepTheLifeline
this October
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JRF and over 60 organisations have come together in
@thesundaytimes
to express deep concern at the failure to make the £20 uplift to
#UniversalCredit
permanent. At a time of great uncertainty, cutting this lifeline would be immoral (£)
#KeepTheLifeline
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Our new report, Poverty in Scotland 2021, sets out the nature and scale of poverty in Scotland that preceded the pandemic and looks ahead to the solutions we should aim for in the recovery and beyond
#ChallengePoverty
@CPW_Scotland
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1⃣In exactly one month from now the planned cut to
#UniversalCredit
will take £20 a week from the already precarious incomes of millions of families.
Here’s a rundown of just some of the reasons why the cut must not go ahead 👇
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We are thrilled to hear of the high court bid to end discrimination against
#LegacyBenefit
claimants. There is no justification for excluding this group, the majority of whom are disabled, from the £20 increase to
#UniversalCredit
.
#IncreaseLegacyBenefits
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🚨Today’s inflation figures show food price inflation increased by 30% compared to April 2021, when prices started to accelerate. 📈
While the main rate of inflation has come down, essentials like food and energy still cost much more. 🍞💷
🧵 (1/4)
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Social security should protect families from harm, yet our new analysis shows the planned cut to
#UniversalCredit
will affect more than 1 in 3 working-age families with children in over 400 constituencies.
So what does this mean and where will it have the most impact?🧵
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UK Poverty 2020/21 is out next week. Our leading report on the nature and scale of poverty in the UK looks at the position of people trapped in poverty going into the
#COVID19
pandemic, considers what impact it's had and how ministers must make tackling poverty a priority in 2021
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Around 5.5 million low-income families are set to lose £1,040 per year as a result of the
#UniversalCredit
cut.
£20 a week is a weekly food shop for people on a budget, plus energy prices are set to rise.
We must
#KeepTheLifeline
and help keep families afloat
"There is no cut because there is no financial saving" DWP minister Will Quince tells the Commons, re the Universal Credit £20/week uplift removal.
Only problem with that is for UC claimants, it certainly IS a cut in their income.
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Join us and
@TrussellTrust
in calling on the government to guarantee that the basic rate of
#UniversalCredit
will always cover essentials such as food and heating, and ensure no one’s life is devastated by hardship.
#OurEssentials
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🚨 NEW: our latest report on poverty in Scotland paints a bleak picture of a society in crisis, with urgent action needed from all levels of Government to prevent a winter defined by hunger, cold and trauma.
Read our latest research now
#ChallengePoverty
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🚨People living in poverty find it harder to live a healthy life, live with more illnesses, and die earlier than the rest of population.
New report with
@TheKingsFund
exposes the staggering toll poverty is taking on the nation’s health.
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❄️ 2 million households have turned off their fridge or freezer to save money
🗓️ Nearly half of these households did this for the first time in the last six months
🍲 2.8 million households hold debt that they had taken out to help pay for food
🧵(1/3)
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🔺 Around 1 in 5 people were living in poverty between 2021/22.
📊 Some local authorities had as many as 4 in 10 children living in poverty.
🏠 Around 1/4 of adults were in poverty in the North East, London & West Midlands.
🗣️ This level of hardship can't be ignored. (2/5)
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Tasha, Emilie and Ron explain what an additional £20 a week means to them.
It would be wrong to take away £20 a week from the already precarious incomes of millions of families by cutting
#UniversalCredit
.
We must
#KeepTheLifeline
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📈 Levels of poverty in the UK have not fallen consistently in two decades & six prime ministers, underscoring the need for comprehensive policy change.
💼 We’re demanding our politicians provide a plan to address the systemic issues that contribute to
#UKPoverty
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NEW: Poverty in
#Scotland
2019 is out today.
We have looked at
#scotpoverty
trends over the last 20 years of devolution and explained why trends in Scotland have somewhat diverged from the rest of the UK.
#ChallengePoverty
#AyeWeCan
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