The current cost of living is pushing more people into poverty, with almost 68% of low income...
Fuel poverty
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03/12/2011
More jobs needed to tackle poverty
More than half of children living in poverty have a parent in paid employment, finds the Joseph Rowntree Foundation in their report, Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion 2011.
The report, produced with the New Policy Institute, warns that ‘the coalition does not have a comprehensive anti-poverty strategy and relies too much on the tax and benefits system alone to encourage people into work, mistakes also made by Labour’. It is also highly critical of the lack of a plan to address problems associated with the rise of badly paid and insecure jobs – more than half of all children in poverty are living with a parent in paid work. It says that:
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02/12/2011
Fuel poverty on the rise
A quarter of all households in England and Wales have now fallen into fuel poverty following an autumn of steep increases in energy bills and stagnating incomes, according to a report by The Guardian. This is up from nearly one in five households in 2010. This is despite the government’s statutory obligation to eliminate fuel poverty by 2016.
Previous government projections forecast that this year would see 4.1m households in fuel poverty. But these estimates were calculated before the huge price rises announced last summer by the big six energy suppliers. New calculations, provided to the statutory consumer body Consumer Focus and based on actual bills, show the figure for England alone is now over 5m households.
The full report is available on The Guardian website.
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19/10/2011
Fuel poverty leads to ill-health
Fuel poverty is a ‘distinct and serious’ problem producing physical and mental ill-health and excess winter deaths, argues Interim Report on Fuel Poverty commissioned by the Department of Energy and Climate Change. Fuel poverty arises from a combination of high fuel costs, low incomes and poorly insulated homes and a household is defined as ‘fuel poor’ if more than 10 per cent of its income is spent keeping the home adequately warm (21°C in the living room). John Hills, the report’s author, argues that it is essential to improve the energy efficiency of the housing stock but that people on low incomes are often living in the least energy efficient properties and are not in a position to invest in remedial measures. He proposes a new method of measuring fuel poverty, which combines low incomes with high costs.
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