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Statement in Response to Announcement of Households Below Average Income Statistics by Department of Work and Pensions

10/06/2008

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Oxfam is dismayed that the latest Department of Work and Pension statistics (Households Below Average Income) show there has been a rise of 100,000 in the number of children living in poverty and that 300,000 more pensioners are now living in poverty.

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