Nearly 1 million people aged over 66 in the UK are living in deprivation, according to government statistics, the highest number since comparable records began.…
View More Nearly 1m UK pensioners living in deprivation, official figures showTag: Poverty
‘I only had £5’: what happened to the 3.8 million people denied furlough at the start of Covid?
In March 2020, Mark Edwards was excited to start a new job running a venue that hosted weddings and hospitality events. Before that, the 47-year-old…
View More ‘I only had £5’: what happened to the 3.8 million people denied furlough at the start of Covid?More than 2m UK prepay meter users to be cut off from gas or electric this winter
More than 2 million people across the UK will be cut off from their gas and electricity this winter because they cannot afford to top…
View More More than 2m UK prepay meter users to be cut off from gas or electric this winterCall to end ‘cruel’ winter rises as energy bills go up by £100 a year
Midwinter energy price increases should be abolished to protect households from unaffordable bills “at the worst possible time”, according to a coalition of leading charities.…
View More Call to end ‘cruel’ winter rises as energy bills go up by £100 a yearOne in four adults in UK to buy now, pay later for Christmas, study shows
More than a quarter of adults in the UK will use buy now, pay later to help with festive spending, research suggests, with the proportion…
View More One in four adults in UK to buy now, pay later for Christmas, study shows‘We had no money’: desperate UK public increasingly turning to pawnbrokers to make ends meet
At about midday, Grace walks into Pickwick Pawnbrokers in Dartford and places a thin 40-carat gold chain on the desk. The 73-year-old needs £40 to…
View More ‘We had no money’: desperate UK public increasingly turning to pawnbrokers to make ends meetEngland worst place in developed world to find housing, says report
England is now “the most difficult place to find a home in the developed world”, housebuilders have claimed in a snapshot of the housing crisis…
View More England worst place in developed world to find housing, says reportEnergy bills: don’t break promise on social tariff, Sunak urged
More than 140 organisations and individuals, including the consumer champion Martin Lewis, have told Rishi Sunak to make good on a promise to help Britain’s…
View More Energy bills: don’t break promise on social tariff, Sunak urgedStruggling self-employed in UK would prefer salaried job security, report claims
Mental distress and financial insecurity has pushed 40% of self-employed workers to say they would switch to a salaried job if they could secure the…
View More Struggling self-employed in UK would prefer salaried job security, report claimsPensioner poverty: fear of rise over decades as UK under-40s wealth falls
Campaigners have sounded the alarm about a potential increase in pensioner poverty in Britain over the coming decades after it emerged that the share of…
View More Pensioner poverty: fear of rise over decades as UK under-40s wealth falls