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New Data Shows Cost-of-living Crisis Has Meant Over a Quarter of Single Parent Families Have Already Gone Without Food
Posted 21 March 2022
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Read the latest news and views on Gingerbread’s work and the issues affecting single parent families today.
Autumn Budget leaves too many single parents facing a bleak winter
Posted 3 November 2021
This week’s Autumn Budget has seen winners (cider drinkers and short-haul flyers) and losers (savers and smokers) but what does it mean for single parents? What does the Budget mean for working single parents? Of the 1.8...
Life as a single parent at the end of the COVID-19 safety nets – the untold human story
Posted 2 September 2021
Since the beginning of the pandemic, in March 2020, single parents have borne the brunt of the economic and social fallout. Prior to the pandemic, single parents were already more likely to live in poverty...
Gingerbread calls on the new government to tackle the poverty epidemic among single parent families
Posted 16 December 2019
As the new Conservative government is announced, Gingerbread calls for urgent action to reduce poverty among single parent families through policies that improve living standards for the 1 in 4 UK families headed by single...
New findings on Universal Credit
Posted 16 May 2018
Gingerbread has been working with single parent families to understand the experience and reality of Universal Credit (UC) as it continues to be rolled out. We outline progress against the Government’s objectives to: make work pay personalise support simplify...
Unfair benefit sanctions push single parents further away from employment
Posted 17 April 2018
Unfair benefit sanctions can result in single parents being less likely to find employment and take a severe financial and emotional toll on single parents and their children, with the situation set to worsen under...Unhelpful and unfair? also shows the first signs that Universal Credit risks making this situation worse, as more single parents – including those with very young children and those who are in work – are...
Benefit cap court judgment means “more misery” for single parents with babies and toddlers
Posted 15 March 2018
Today, the Court of Appeal ruled in favour of the government concluding that the benefit cap is not discriminating against single parents with children aged under two.[1] Laura Dewar, Policy Officer at Gingerbread, comments: “Gingerbread is bitterly...
Centenary report shows more single parents working, yet poverty still rising
Posted 21 February 2018
Our new report, One in four: single parent families in the UK, has been released to mark 100 years of Gingerbread’s work. In the centenary report, we profile single parents in the UK today and how...
More babies and toddlers unlawfully affected by benefit cap than ever before
Posted 3 August 2017
Analysis of new benefit cap figures shows that most vulnerable single parents are still being affected The number of babies and toddlers affected by the government’s benefit cap policy continues to rise – despite a high...
Judicial review finds benefit cap discriminates against single parents with babies and toddlers
Posted 22 June 2017
Gingerbread welcomes high court ruling that recognises benefit cap harms most vulnerable single parents Response to welcome ruling that benefit cap discriminates against most vulnerable single parents; Gingerbread provided evidence for high court case In a striking...
One in seven single parents hit with benefit sanctions
Posted 12 April 2017
Gingerbread’s new report looks at the impact of the benefit sanctions regime on single parents The government is systematically underestimating the risk of sanctions to single parents, according to new research from Gingerbread. “On the rise: single...
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