The findings came amid concerns among poverty charities that ministers are looking to reduce financial help for low-earning families in the incoming autumn statement next week by freezing the value of working-age benefits from next April, which would raise billions for the Treasury but make about nine million households lose out on an estimated average of £460, and push lower income families even further into poverty. JRF said that although the government had allocated more than £12 billion in targeted cost of living support, and inflation has begun to fall, 7.3m households had gone without food and other essentials in the last six months. This indicates that the crisis is far from over. The paper also said there were rising concerns about the decreased financial help for low-income families that the government is expected to announce in its autumn spending statement next week. "It's unconscionable that the government is reportedly considering cutting struggling families' benefits to fund tax cuts," Matejic said. "In the upcoming autumn statement, benefits must be increased in line with inflation and local housing allowance must be unfrozen to support private renters with their housing costs." Over 4,000 households were surveyed in the JRF’s study on the impact of the cost of living crisis.❄️ 2 million households have turned off their fridge or freezer to save money ?️ Nearly half of these households did this for the first time in the last six months ? 2.8 million households hold debt that they had taken out to help pay for food ?(1/3)https://t.co/nqa4lgGACU
— Joseph Rowntree Foundation (@jrf_uk) November 14, 2023
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