UK. Two in 10 pensioners now living in poverty
‘UK Poverty 2017’ – which says it’s the first report of its kind to assess rates of poverty and how they are changing – claims that 14 million people across the UK do not have enough money to have an acceptable standard of living.
That 14 million is made up of eight million working age adults, four million children, and 1.9 million pensioners.
JRF says that while poverty levels have substantially improved over the last two decades among those that are traditionally seen to be most at risk – pensioners and certain families with children – poverty rates in these groups have started to increase again.
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