Research published today by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), A Bleak Future For Families, arrived at the figure by comparing the impact of tax, tax credits, benefit reforms, wage growth and Universal Credit on families against minimum income standards.
The minimum income standards, developed by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), do not measure poverty, but indicate what a household needs to achieve a “decent standard” of living, beyond food, clothes and shelter.
The TUC found that while Universal Credit would lift 20,000 children above the minimum income standard, the majority of children in the UK would be living below the measure by 2015.
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