The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

THE UK Government’s “scandalous decision” to cut the eligibility of the Winter Fuel Payment will leave 85 of Scottish pensioners in poverty…

Food bank network Trussell has developed term to define deep poverty – but what does this mean, who is affected by it, and why?

In the rural village of Téssékéré, the increasing number and intensity of droughts linked to climate change is making the lives and livelihoods of the local Fulani communities increasingly vulnerable. Here, in the northern Sahel desert region of Senegal (known as the Ferlo), the pastoral population walks over dry, dusty…

The Scottish Government is awarding grants of up to £80,000 to 12 local projects that support families in poverty around the country ...

Anne*, who lived in poverty with her two sons, wrote to Scott Morrison, Alan Tudge and Christian Porter about the unfair system but never heard back

MORE than 100 children have been pulled into poverty by the two-child cap every day since Labour took office, new research has found ...

Labour urged to abolish the two-child benefit gap by charities who say the damage it causes ‘grows every day’

Campaigners say key reason for rising hardship is two-child benefit cap, which PM and chancellor have refused to axe

A lack of financial and emotional support for kinship carers could push up to 18,000 children into an already overstretched foster care system