Child poverty rate will remain unchanged despite the child benefit lump sums
The child poverty rate will likely remain unchanged but elevated despite the child benefit increases announced in Tuesday’s budget. Photograph: PA WiresThe child poverty rate, meanwhile, will likely remain unchanged but elevated despite the child benefit lump sums announced in Tuesday’s budget.
‘It will never be for sale, until the day I die’: Xavier Niel, France’s best-connected ‘outsider’, vows never to hang up on Eir However, she said it is going to have to be careful as it begins to wind down certain temporary measures like the energy credits scheme because of the uneven impact it will have on the incomes of certain at-risk cohorts while there is still a build-up of elevated consumer prices in the economy.
Alan Barrett, director of the ESRI, said the budget may have been a “missed opportunity” to lift thousands of children out of poverty. While measures including the double payment of child benefit in November and the €280 newborn baby grant will help families with children, those measures are not targeted specifically at those most in-need of intervention.
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