Comparing calculations based on both coalition policies and the plans of the previous administration, the IFS claims that the current government's plans will lead to an extra 800,000 children and working age people living in relative poverty between 2010/11 and 2013/14.
The Child Poverty Act, which became law last year, commits current and future governments to reducing relative child poverty — where household income is less than 60 per cent of the median in that year — to 10 per cent by 2020/21.
But the IFS argues that the government would need to achieve an almost unprecedented fall in child poverty to hit the target.
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