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Winter Fuel Cut: Tens of thousands of pensioners will be pushed into poverty, Government's own analysis shows

Government estimates suggest that limiting the payment will mean an estimated 50,000 more pensioners are in relative poverty after housing costs in 2025, and 100,000 more in 2026

Evening Standard

Thousands forced into poverty by winter fuel squeeze, Government estimates

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall said the Government estimates did not account for measures to mitigate the impact.

Evening Standard

UK Government's own analysis reveals harsh impact of Winter Fuel Payment cut

LABOUR’S cut to the Winter Fuel Payment will leave around “100,000 more pensioners in relative poverty”, the UK Government's own analysis has…

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Taxing The Richest: What The G20 Decided

Anti-poverty campaigners have hailed a decision by G20 leaders meeting in Rio to make sure the world's billionaires "are effectively taxed."

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Winter fuel payments cut will drive 100,000 more pensioners into poverty, minister admits

Ministers have faced criticism for slashing access to the payment

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Thousands more pensioners in poverty due to winter fuel payment cut – DWP

Ministers have faced criticism for slashing access to the payment.

Evening Standard

Restos du Cœur aids 128,000 infants, announces service expansion

The French charity Restos du Cœur, founded by the late comedian Coluche in 1985, has unveiled a significant expansion of its services for vulnerable populations. This as the organisation said it had helped 128,000 children under the age of three between 2023 and 2024.

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Premium Tax Credit: Are You Eligible For This Health Insurance Tax Break?

The tax credit can help qualifying individuals pay for coverage from the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance marketplace.

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G20 leaders call for ‘comprehensive’ ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon

Left-wing Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says poverty and hunger the ‘product of political decisions’.

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Poverty figures render UK government numbers too little and action very late

Broadening definition of poverty reveals true numbers of people living in poverty and accelerates need to tackle crisis

The Guardian - UK

More than one in three children in poverty as UK deprivation hits record high

Exclusive: Study finds almost quarter of UK population living in poverty, reaching the highest level this century

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G20 Host Brazil Launches Alliance To End 'Scourge' Of Hunger

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva opened a G20 summit in Rio by launching an alliance to curb world hunger, which he called a "scourge that shames humanity."

International Business Times

G20 Leaders To Grapple With Climate, Taxes, Trump Comeback

G20 leaders gather in Brazil on Monday to discuss fighting poverty, boosting climate financing and other multilateral initiatives that could yet be upended by Donald Trump's impending return to the White House.

International Business Times

North-east England to unveil £55m package to tackle child poverty

Region’s mayor to launch measures to cut unemployment, reduce cost of travel and help children in hardship

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Widow left with crippling energy bill after keeping dying husband warm during cancer care

Simona and David Pappalardo’s lives were turned upside down when David was diagnosed with brain cancer and given six months to live

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King Charles III Opens Food Distribution Hubs On 76Th Birthday

King Charles III inaugurates food hubs on 76th birthday to address food poverty and waste, with traditional military celebrations.

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Socioeconomic status explains most of the racial and ethnic achievement gaps in elementary school

For decades, white students have performed significantly better than Black and Hispanic students on tests of academic achievement. Explanations for these achievement gaps include poverty and systems that result in discrimination. Others cite struggles to learn English. And some folks believe that some groups simply don’t value education.

International Business Times

US Bans Flights To Haiti As Gang Violence Rages

The United States on Tuesday banned all civilian flights to Haiti for a month, a day after a jetliner was shot at on approach to the capital and as a new prime minister took the reins of a nation ravaged by poverty and gang violence.

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Friend Calls Lady Poor As She Has 2 Kids Sharing A Big Room In Mortgage-Free House, Folks Disagree

Couple buys mortgage-free, 3-bedroom house and makes two kids share one room. A friend says it's a "sign of poverty," but the woman disagrees. The post Friend Calls Lady Poor As She Has 2 Kids Sharing A Big Room In Mortgage-Free House, Folks Disagree first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Government told to loosen restrictions preventing migrant households claiming benefits

Thousands of migrants - including some who were encouraged to come to fill skills shortages - are living in poverty as they can’t access benefits

The Conversation

Kenya’s Hustler Fund is a flop. Why president Ruto’s plan to loan money to entrepreneurs hasn’t worked

It’s two years since Kenyan president William Ruto, in what seemed like a political gamble, rolled out a government-run microcredit scheme popularised as the Hustler Fund. Worth 50 billion shillings (US$409 million) a year over a five-year period, the low-interest loans were touted as the “magic formula” to start or…

The Independent UK

People dying in poverty up by almost a fifth, says charity

Research for Marie Curie said an estimated 128,000 people died in fuel poverty in 2022, including 110,000 pensioners.

Evening Standard

Felix Project partners with The Caring Family Foundation to provide a million meals to Londoners in need

The initiative will seek to address poverty experienced by adults and children in the capital

The Guardian - UK

‘I went to war. It was a nightmare’: how children have become ‘cannon fodder’ in DRC’s endless conflict

Driven mostly by poverty, children as young as 10 have been enlisted by the country’s militias, while NGOs try to reach and reintegrate those who escape

The Independent UK

Haitian activists demand halt to deportations as gang violence and poverty soar

Haitian activists are demanding that other countries temporarily stop deportations to their country given a surge in gang violence and deepening poverty

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