Child asylum seekers forced to live below poverty line
Neil Puffett
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Asylum support levels for children and families have left around 10,000 children in severe poverty, because payments fall "alarmingly below" mainstream benefit levels, a report by The Children's Society has found.
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