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Re: The state benefits system mega-thread. Many merged.
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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
I imagine that most people would be pleased about not being changed over and want to put it off for as long as possible!
Figures on BBC Business News this morning showed that 25% of the country is in poverty. Of those, 50% were disabled.
Pensioner poverty has decreased though. This is probably because pensioners were exempt from the benefit cuts, whereas the disabled weren't. They don't want to go upsetting all those Tory voting pensioners do they  |
If this is based on the Legatum report, the figures in the reports are a bit different - 50% of the families in poverty had a disabled person as part of the family.
http://socialmetricscommission.org.u...ULL_REPORT.pdf
Executive Summary, key findings, page 7
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Under the Commission’s new measure:
ƒ 14.2 million people in the UK population are in poverty: 8.4 million working-age adults;
4.5 million children; and 1.4 million pension age adults.
ƒ 12.1% of the total UK population (7. 7 million people) live in persistent poverty, (over half of those who appear in our new in poverty measure). This means that more than one in ten of the UK population are in persistent poverty.
ƒ More than six in ten working-age adults and children who live in families more than 10% below the poverty line, are also in persistent poverty. For those less than 10% below the poverty line, the figure is four in ten.
ƒ Of the 14.2 million people in poverty, nearly half, 6.9 million (48.3%) are living in families with a disabled person.
ƒ Far fewer pensioners are living in poverty than previous measures suggested. Poverty rates amongst pension-age adults have also nearly halved since 2001 (falling from 20.8% in 2001 to 11.4% in 2017).
ƒ The majority (68%) of people living in workless families are in poverty. This compares to just 9% for people living in families where all adults work full time.
ƒ Around 2.7 million people are less than 10% below the poverty line, meaning that
relatively small changes in their circumstances could mean that they move above it.
ƒ There are 2.5 million people in the UK who are less than 10% above the poverty line.
Relatively small changes in their circumstances could mean they fall below it.
ƒ There is a “resilience gap” between those in poverty and those not in poverty.
Across a wide range of factors that impact upon families’ lives, there are measurable and significant differences between these two groups.
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