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Child Poverty Action Group
@CPAGUK
Child Poverty Action Group is the leading charity campaigning for an end to child poverty in the UK and for a better deal for low-income families.

Mar 13, 2019, 5 tweets

Our response to the #SpringStatement: there is no justification for the ongoing benefit freeze cpag.org.uk/content/spring… 1/

We are dismayed that today’s Spring Statement has not brought an end to the freeze on working age benefits, despite cross-party calls for the policy to stop. 2/

Our CEO @alisongcpag: “Struggling families are desperate for an end to the freeze on working age benefits, but this Spring Statement leaves them out in the cold once again. Already the freeze has saved the Treasury more than was ever intended...

"...so there can be no ongoing justification for these ‘stealth cuts’ that mean that the poorest in society have borne the heaviest burden from paying off the deficit." 4/

"Funding sanitary products for girls in schools may help with one small area of expenditure, but this will have a minimal impact on poverty overall. It leaves in tatters the prime minister’s claim that austerity is over." 5/5

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