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The gradual erosion of benefit levels, along with the end of Single Payments and now the Social Fund, means older people don’t realise quite how difficult it is to get by on benefits in 2019. Benefit levels used to be 30% of median income, now only 11% #povertyeastbelfast
sarah travers@TraversSarah
@gorettihorgan tells delegates at #povertyeastbelfast Scaffolding Project conference that people on benefits now in NI are three times worse off than those on benefits in 1971. Huge impact on children living in persistent poverty.
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