About 6.8 million people — almost half of all of those in poverty — are living in "very deep poverty" in the UK, the Joseph ...

Very deep poverty is defined by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation as earning below 40% of the median household income. According ...

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation said 6.8 million people were living in very deep poverty in the year to March 2024.

By Catarina Demony LONDON, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Poverty in Britain has deepened, according to a report released on Tuesday, ...

Britain’s ‘poorest still getting poorer’ as Labour urged to act on ‘record high’ levels of poverty - Poverty will remain ...

Poverty in Britain remains stubbornly high, with more than one in five people now living in deprivation, a new report has ...

Coordinated action and binding targets are required The UK government published its long awaited child poverty strategy at the end of 2025. It lands amid the highest levels of child poverty in the UK ...

Britain’s leading end of life charity, Marie Curie paints a terrible picture of over 100,000 people in the UK dying in poverty every year. The report, “Dying in Poverty 2024”, centres on data collated ...

The number of pensioners living in poverty in Britain is at risk of hitting two million, it has been warned. Older people are taking "drastic measures" to make ends meet such as skipping meals, taking ...

Some older people ‘skipping showers or meals to make ends meet financially’ - Age UK’s ‘crisis hiding in plain sight’ ...