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CPAG are members of the Give Me Five Campaign.

Parents working full time on the ‘national living wage’ (NLW) are significantly short of the income needed to give children an acceptable minimum living standard – as defined by the public – and the shortfall will grow as inflation combines with the current freeze on benefits to put family budgets under new strain, CPAG's new report warns.

Today's DWP figures show a huge rise in the number of families hit by the benefit cap - 7 in 10 are single parents with young children and most are not required to work.

Kirsty McKechnie, Welfare Rights Worker with our Early Warning System has written a blog about how the impacts of welfare reform on families in Scotland have changed in the last 4 years.