The Caithness Business Index has posted the following article:

New HBAI Data Shows Rises In Food Insecurity And Child Poverty During Cost-of-living Crisis

[IMG][/IMG] New Households Below Average Income (HBAI) data for 2022-23, released today by the DWP, sheds fresh light on the cost of living crisis, with households across the income distribution experiencing a fall in real household incomes during this period, due to an inflation hit of 10 per cent. The share of people living in absolute poverty rose from 17 to 18 per cent (up by 600,000 people to 12 million), with the child poverty rate jumping by 2 percentage points to 25 per cent (up by 300,000 to 3.6 million children). [Read Full Article]