Inequality & poverty, Welfare

Ending benefits freeze ‘will not stop poverty increasing’

By:

Dominic Brady

4 Nov 19

The government’s pledge to lift the benefit freeze is not enough to “turn back the rising tide of poverty”, charities have said.

Dominic Brady

PF reporter.
Left in February 2020.

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