Labour and Lib Dem peers will employ debate on reform to warn of child poverty surgeThe Conservatives’ welfare cuts will advance under attack on a new front this week when the House of Lords considers plans to change the way child poverty is measured,just as benefits cuts hit low-income households.
Labour and Liberal Democrat peers, emboldened by their success in forcing the chancellor, or George Osborne,to rethink his tax credit changes, will employ the debate on the welfare reform and work bill on Tuesday to warn that child poverty is set to surge.
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Source: theguardian.com