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While the 2021 Budget had some really good initiatives for disabled people, the vaunted benefit increases, while very welcome, have come too late writes Chris Ford.
OPINION: Last Saturday I took part in a Liveable Incomes march in a chi-chi suburb – and drivers in BMWs genuinely clapped and cheered us on. In general, all of us – even Beamer drivers – want to know that our whole “team of 5 million” (TM) have enough to live on. And yet currently, one in five children live with the toxic stress and long-term health and educational effects of food insecurity. Parents cry when interviewed about bringing up their children on inadequate income support: they talk of hopelessness, despair, hunger, existing not living. So for those parents and their children, here is the story of the Budget in three movie genres: the much-hyped would-be blockbuster, the buried romantic drama, and the creeping horror.
Press Release – Child Poverty Action Group Child Poverty Action Group welcomes the income support increases announced today by the Government, saying the rises will be a good step towards income adequacy for many children in need. “The changes today are useful if insufficient. Our modelling …
Child Poverty Action Group welcomes the income support increases announced today by the Government, saying the rises will be a good step towards income adequacy for many children in need.
“The changes today are useful if insufficient. Our modelling shows the changes fall short of liveable incomes, but these increases should still be high enough to make a difference for many families,” said CPAG spokesperson Professor Emeritus Innes Asher. “This holds particularly for couple families, who are currently worst-off.”