The report, ‘Households below a Minimum Income Standard 2008/09-2012/13’, indicates that at least 8.1 million parents and children in the UK are living on incomes below what is needed to cover a minimum household budget, up by more than a third from 5.9 million seven years ago.
It attributes this increase to a ‘real-term’ fall in wages and cuts to benefits and tax credits.
Commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) and carried out by the Centre for Research in Social Policy at Loughborough University, the research is based upon data on household incomes.
The JRF defines a minimum standard of living in the UK as being able to afford food, clothes and shelter, along with having the opportunities and choices necessary to participate in society.
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