Offer allied with job support scheme essential to prevent hundreds of thousands falling below poverty line this winter
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An urgent “family stimulus” package alongside the chancellor’s new job support scheme is vital to prevent hundreds of thousands of parents and their children falling below the poverty line this winter, according to a new joint report from the IPPR thinktank and the TUC.
The organisations have called for an overhaul of the UK’s social security offering, which they argue is one of the least generous in the developed world and inadequate to cope with the expected steep rise in joblessness caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
