poverty

Record number of families are living in temporary accommodation

14th July 2025 Consumer Collections | #poverty

A record 128,000 households are living in temporary accommodation in England, an increase of 160 per cent since 2010, as support for lower-income families through social housing and the benefit system continues to decline, according to new Resolution Foundation research. With the creation of affordable homes being one of the Government’s central milestones, the Foundation’s…

82% of public support action for older people in poverty

19th June 2025 Arrears and Recoveries | #poverty

New polling commissioned by charity Independent Age, reveals that 82% of people think the UK Government should be providing more support to older people. The polling also shows the importance of this issue at the ballot box, with more than four in five (81%) saying that policies to support older people in poverty would influence…

Poverty challenge highlighted in new report

30th January 2025 Arrears and Recoveries | #poverty

A new report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has found that more than 1 in 5 people in the UK (21%) were in poverty in 2022/23 – 14.3 million people. Of these, 8.1 million were working-age adults, 4.3 million were children and 1.9 million were pensioners. To put it another way, around 2 in…

Nearly 1 million people only £10 a week away from poverty

5th June 2024 Consumer Collections | #poverty

New analysis from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has found that millions of people are already in poverty, and millions more are ‘teetering on the edge.’ The research found that 3.2 million people in the UK are only £40 a week from poverty, equivalent to the entire population of Wales. This includes 700,000 children, 1.5…

Poverty’s toll on the nation’s health is a ‘mounting catastrophe’

20th March 2024 Arrears and Recoveries | #poverty

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) is warning that the nation’s health can’t be protected only through NHS reform, as new JRF-backed research by the King’s Fund health and care think tank exposed the staggering toll poverty is taking on NHS services. With almost four million people in the UK facing destitution in a single year,…

Millions of people would need to double their income to escape poverty

23rd January 2024 Consumer Collections | #poverty

New analysis in the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) flagship UK Poverty report quantifies for the first time how many thousands of pounds are needed by families to escape poverty. The poverty gap, or the amount of money needed to bring the incomes of people in poverty to the poverty line, has grown wider. Six million…

Half of older workers who retired earlier 2020–21 have ended up in relative poverty

7th July 2023 Arrears and Recoveries | #poverty

New IFS research, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), shows that 48% of 50- to 70-year-olds who had recently left the workforce in 2020–21 ended up in relative poverty. This was significantly higher than the percentage of individuals who were in poverty after leaving the workforce in pre-pandemic years – even though overall poverty…

400,000 people could be pulled into poverty by benefits cuts in April

25th February 2022 Arrears and Recoveries | #poverty

Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) is warning that a planned real-term cut to benefits in April could pull 400,000 people into poverty. The analysis revealed the consequences of the Government’s decision to uprate benefits by just 3.1% in April, when inflation is forecast to hit 7%. The Foundation says that this represents a real-term cut to…

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