Ministers urged to increase child benefit rates amid warnings more children will ‘slip into poverty’ as coronavirus recession takes hold
pandemic has left 80 per cent of low-income families in a worse financial position than before the crisis, leaving parents “living under a cloud of anxiety in lockdown”. It warned of greater hardships to come if the government failed to take immediate action.showed the number of children relying on food banks had more than doubled during the pandemic, up 122 per cent during the last two weeks of March compared with the same period in 2019.
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