According to a new analysis by End Child Poverty, a failure to increase child benefit and child tax credit in line with the cost of living over the last three years has caused one in five families across the country to struggle to provide their children with the basics. This includes working and non-working families.
End Child Poverty is a coalition of children’s charities, unions and faith groups.
In the 2012 Autumn Statement, the Government announced that most children’s benefits and tax credits would be increased by just one per cent for three years (2012-14 to 2015-16), regardless of the rate of inflation. This was made law under the Benefit Uprating Act 2013.
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