Costs and spending

Treasury must not wreck universal credit and poverty progress

17 February 2011

Commenting ahead of today’s publication of the Welfare Reform Bill, the Chief Executive of Child Poverty Action Group, Alison Garnham, said: “The jury is still out on the universal credit. Ministers are right to aim for much better back to work support and a benefits system that makes it pay to work...

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Universal credit flaws and IT glitch must not damage children and families

12 January 2011

Commenting on the report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies on the government’s proposals for welfare reform and a Universal Credit system, the Chief Executive of Child Poverty Action Group, Alison Garnham, said: “The IFS report looks at Universal Credit, but the Government’s overall record on welfare so far is even more worrying...

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A decade of debt: lessons for the future

Issue 132 (Winter 2009)

Over the last few months we have seen the gathering clouds of what could proved to be a deep recession.

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Who is fuel poor?

Issue 131 (Autumn 2008)

By June 2008 the domestic fuel commodity price index had increased by 51 per cent from 2005, more than five times the rate of general inflation.

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Increase in working poor a massive blow to Government’s work first poverty strategy

03 January 2008

Commenting on the IPPR report Working out of poverty: a study of the low paid and the working poor, released today, the Chief Executive of Child Poverty Action Group, Kate Green, said: “The report shows that the main plank of the Government’s strategy to end child poverty is failing...

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