CPAG's new book, Improving children's life chances, is out now. It discusses what 'life chances' means and explains how we cannot aspire to improve life chances without tackling child poverty. Read more.
Our annual cost of a child research finds that two parents working full-time on the minimum wage are still £50 a week short of what they need to raise their children at a minimum standard of living. Read more.
This autumn the benefit cap will be cut, squeezing low-income families even further and pushing more people into poverty. We are looking for test cases to legally challenge the benefit cap.
In an important test case brought by CPAG, it has been held that tax credit claimants have always been able to make a late appeal against decisions made by HMRC.