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27/03/2014
Paying bills a struggle for 1 in 8 in Wales
As many as one in eight people in Wales are finding it a 'constant struggle' to keep up with their bills, according to the latest findings from the National Survey of Wales.
The National Survey collects detailed information on the views and experiences of people across Wales on a wide range of topics, involving face-to-face interviews with around 14,500 people a year. The latest report, for 2012-13, focuses on the issue of financial inclusion.
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17/02/2014
Impact of benefits reforms in Wales
The coalition government's reforms to benefits and tax credits will cost Wales around £900 million a year by 2015-16, according to a study carried out for the Welsh Government.
The study looks at the impact of the changes on local authority areas in Wales, updating and extending earlier work on the effects at the household and individual level.
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03/10/2013
Poverty and ethnicity in Wales
Schemes to reduce poverty among particular ethnic groups in Wales need to form part of population-wide anti-poverty strategies, a new study for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has concluded.
The qualitative study focused on the experiences of people from five ethnic groups – Bangladeshi, Pakistani, Polish, Somali and white British/Welsh – living in a range of different areas including a large city, the north Wales coast, the south Wales valleys and the countryside. The 47 respondents were all experiencing relatively high levels of poverty.
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19/09/2013
Poverty and social exclusion in Wales 2013
As many as 690,000 people in Wales (23 per cent of the total) were estimated to be living in low-income households over the three year period to 2011-12, according to a regular monitoring report published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
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02/09/2013
Welsh Government ‘doing more’ on child poverty
The Welsh Government has claimed it is doing more than the UK coalition government – or any of the other devolved administrations – by way of efforts to tackle poverty. The claim was made by the Deputy Minister for Tackling Poverty, Vaughan Gething, as the Welsh Government submitted evidence to the UK Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission.
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17/07/2013
Wales feels impact of UK welfare reforms
Women in Wales are more likely to be adversely affected than men by UK-wide changes in the benefits system, according to a new report. They are also likely to lose more compared with men.
The report is the third in a series commissioned by the Welsh Government to improve understanding of how the changes will affect different groups of people in Wales.
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03/07/2013
Poverty action plan for Wales
Plans to provide 5,000 job and training opportunities for households in Wales in which no-one has a job are at the heart of new Welsh Government plans to tackle poverty.
The plans are an updated version of those published by the Welsh Government in June 2012.
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18/04/2013
‘Anti-poverty champions’ in Wales
New 'anti-poverty champions' are being planned in Wales to help the poorest groups in society and protect those most at risk of poverty and social exclusion. The Welsh Government is asking each of the 22 local councils in Wales to create two champions, one of them an elected councillor and the other a senior council official.
The Minister for Communities and Tackling Poverty, Huw Lewis, said the champions will be an integral part of the Welsh Government's response to poverty – against a background of economic recession and benefit changes that will hit the most vulnerable groups hardest.
Source: Press release 18 April 2013, Welsh Government
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18/02/2013
Benefit cuts in Wales ‘to exceed £590 million’
People in Wales will suffer annual benefit cuts totalling at least £590 million by 2014-15, according to a study commissioned by the Welsh Government. Families with children will lose out the most, the analysis concludes, along with those on low-to-middle incomes.
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30/01/2013
Wales has worst child poverty in UK
Around 200,000 children are living in poverty in Wales, or one in three of the total, according to a new report from the Save the Children charity. In addition, as many as 90,000 live in severe poverty. On both counts, Wales has the highest rate of child poverty of any nation in the UK.
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