CAP has written to Ministers in the Department for Work and Pensions calling for action. This comes after our latest policy report Deficit budgets, the cost to stay alive revealed that 22% of adults in the UK are living with a deficit budget — meaning they don’t have enough income to cover their basic needs.
We are calling for the Government to:
Review the rate of social security and minimum wage to ensure a floor is set so that people receive a protected minimum amount ensuring no one is pushed into deprivation.
Develop a strategy to guarantee that every individual and household across the UK receives the social security they are entitled to.
The letter was signed by Acts 435, APLE Collective, Baptists Together, Caritas Salford, Caritas Shrewsbury, Caritas Social Action Network, Community Money Advice, Debt Justice, Independent Food Aid Network, Just Money Movement, Methodist Church
Money and Mental Health Policy Institute, Poverty Truth Network, The Besom in Camberley, The Salvation Army UK and Ireland, Turn2Us and United Reformed Church.
Money and Mental Health Policy Institute, Poverty Truth Network, The Besom in Camberley, The Salvation Army UK and Ireland, Turn2Us and United Reformed Church.
