Families with their children resorting to food banks
An extra 400,000 children will be in “absolute poverty” within six years due to benefit cuts, a think tank has said.
North-east England and the East Midlands, as well as Wales and Northern Ireland will be hit hardest, the Institute for Fiscal Studies suggested.
The study estimated that some 7.5 million low income households will have their benefit entitlements cut by more than £500 a year in real terms.
The government said it was committed to supporting families.
It said it was “helping families keep more of what they earn” by cutting taxes and increasing the National Living Wage.
However, it has also frozen many working-age benefits and capped payments.
Absolute poverty
The report predicted that child poverty levels will increase by 4% nationally between 2015/16 to 2021/22.
Benefit changes – including the roll-out of universal credit – will account for three-quarters of the total 530,000 surge in child poverty levels over the given period, the research added.
The government has defined those in “absolute poverty” people whose income is less than 60% of what the UK’s median average was in 2010/11.
For a couple with two children in 2017/18, that would be £345 a week.
That figure includes benefits and is after housing costs have been deducted.
The report – funded by independent charity the Joseph Rowntree Foundation – predicted absolute poverty (adult and child) across the UK will remain roughly unchanged between 2015/16 to 2021/22.
But the IFS said without the planned benefit changes, absolute poverty rates would have declined.
“If the government sticks to planned benefit cuts, it should not be surprised if, according to the official measure, absolute child poverty rises,” said Tom Waters, of the IFS.
“The larger projected rises occur in areas where families with children are more reliant on benefits than earnings for their income, and where more families are likely to be adversely affected by the new two child limit on means-tested benefits.”
‘Unravelling‘
The study found some low-income families will see receive £2,500 less in benefits due to the two-child limit.
A government spokesman pointed out that there are 200,000 fewer children living in poverty than in 2010 and that the north-east of England has “near-record levels of employment”. Unemployment rate in Wales “is the lowest on record”, the spokesman added.
But Campbell Robb, chief executive at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, said the figures show the UK’s record of reducing child poverty “is at risk of unravelling”.
The foundation has called on the government to lift the freeze on benefits.
Liberal Democrat work and pensions spokesman Stephen Lloyd said the figures “hammer home” the dangers of “cruel and senseless Conservative policies”.
Since 2017 food banks have poped up all over the Uk with new benefits reforms since Tories been in power and growth show it’s going to growing even more in 2018.
all over the Uk food banks are trying to do their best in helping families with children to have a meal for at least once a week by supplying food packages, however food banks are always running out of supply’s as they can’t handle the high demand in people on this only way so families can feed their love ones.
People can only use the food banks for supply’s if they have been given a request from their GP or healthcare adivor and this can be very limited in using food banks. Their are many children going to bed with a empty stomach and before going to school and only have a drink of water. Because of the U.K. Goverment – DWP can do this as they have planed / designed for the unemployed on benefits by making sure people are stripped away from any kind of income. The DWP aJobcentre Plus play a big part in carrying out these cuts, which they don’t a care in the world.
we are now in 2017 going into 2018 and you wouldn’t think things end up the way it is? The Goverment / DWP are fully aware of these issuers that people are facing today , don’t care and know their plans are working correctly.
We only have two options “let’s stand up and put a STOP to the Tories plans in killing families who love their children very much as everyone should” or option 2 “do nothing to their austerity and let the Tories get away with their plans in killing people / children dying”.
I think that we all may overturn the Tories evil reforms if Labouer gains power as our next Goverment, were I have identified that Labouer is trying their best in changing the Tories reforms, however the Tories wont at all littering, think their evil plans are helping unemployed people back into full – time employment and now driving these reforms even further to make sure their policy’s work in away that nobody won’t have any kind of income.
their plans are not just for the unemployed people, however will also affect those who are employed, because people hours of work may decrease and fall into the Tories plans as people will have less income and b fore unable to pay bills, food, rent, coucial tax and will resort in claiming for a extra income from the DWP.
I do ask all people to stand up and contact your local MP in whiting or email as I do know this method of getting the message across does make a big difference and once you have reported your request belave me DWP don’t like this.
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Searching for extra funds takes time – in between work, hospital appointments, caring, therapies……..
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Lets stand up towards Government & start making changes 