At single parent charity Gingerbread, we’ve been researching how single parents’ incomes and spending patterns compare with families with two parents. Our new report ‘Family Finances’ shows that lone parents’ poverty and struggles to get by can’t simply be blamed on bad choices about money. In doing the research for this report, we were interested in [...]

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From today 68,000 lone parents are losing their entitlement to Income Support (IS). Parents whose youngest child is aged 10 or 11 will be moved onto Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) or ESA over the next few months. In 2010, the age limit will reduce down again so that by the end of the reforms, all parents [...]

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