MENTAL HEALTH - Unemployment benefits will hit their lowest real value in more than three decades this April, a think tank has pointed out.
The Resolution Foundation said the system will be worth just £77.29 a week in a “porous safety net” that has sent child poverty rising from 27% to 31%.
The Mental Health of those on benefits is being severely tested and many families are in temporary accommodation, far below the size necessary and in some cases living in very poor conditions. Local Authorities are struggling to find places and private landlords are turning their backs on tenants on benefits so low that rent arrears are almost inevitable.
No one knows what the long term effects will be on children this insecurity will cause. On their educational achievement. On their ability to cope with a life that can be increasingly stressfull as patterns of employment changes.
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