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Ending the #PovertyPremium: the extra costs people on low incomes pay for essential products & services.
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Martin Coppack
Director, @FairByDesign: it shouldn't cost more to be poor. Commissioner, @UKFinclusion. Trustee, @YoungScot. Advisory Board @mmhpi. Own views.
Fair for You
We support financially-excluded households to buy essential items, avoid hardship, and build their financial resilience. Backed by leading social investors.
Fair4All Finance
Supporting the financial wellbeing of people in vulnerable circumstances by increasing access to fair and affordable financial services.
APLE Collective
A national collective of individuals who experience poverty. Working together with organisations that support us to take positive action to eradicate poverty.
Katie Schmuecker
Principal Policy Adviser at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Commissioner on the Scottish Poverty & Inequality Commission.
Great to hear Bim Afolami MP s support for the CDFI sector at Responsible Finance event today. CDFIs have lent over £3.3bn & increased lending by 14% in the past year. Amazing to hear from individuals and SMEs that have benefitted but still many more CDFIs could serve if supported to grow
The brilliant Caroline Cawley of End Poverty Edinburgh highlighting what the poverty premium looks like to millions of people every day.
Watch Caroline’s full speech back here: youtube.com/watch?v=KJMp2T…
Very exciting to see our Fair By Design Director Martin Coppack in action at Financial Counselling Australia conference in Perth telling 870 delegates about the UK's #povertypremium and how integral the involvement of those w #livedexperience .
Very good to see a call for a national financial inclusion strategy in the The Trussell Trust general election manifesto.
Full document: trusselltrust.org/wp-content/upl…
Good to have the support of Tulip Siddiq in calling for everyone to have access to the financial services that they need. It's essential for individuals and our economy.
To watch back the full event: youtube.com/watch?v=KJMp2T…
Great to be hear at the The New Statesman #NSenergy conference. Hoping to hear how we can ensure the very necessary transition to net zero is a fair transition and helps rather than penalises those on low incomes. Justin Tomlinson MP giving the opening address…
This week we signed up to Independent Age's statement of intent.
It’s clear that people in later life face significant poverty premiums... more needs to be done to support them.
I was delighted to speak at the launch of The Fabian Society latest report on poverty premiums in financial services and other markets.
The next Labour Government will deliver a national financial inclusion strategy to ensure that everyone can access the financial services they need.
Across the UK, two million pensioners live in poverty, cutting back on meals, living in damp, cold homes and sitting in the dark to save money.
But this isn’t inevitable.
We’ve signed up to Independent Age's statement of intent to tackle pensioner poverty.
Last week, The Fabian Society launched Cost Cutters, a plan to tackle the poverty premium + make work
Our plan would save 100s of £ for each low-income family, and ensure regulators/gov listen consumers
Watch our launch - in partnership with Fair By Design 👇
youtube.com/watch?v=KJMp2T…
Caroline Cawley of End Poverty Edinburgh is outstanding in testifying the poverty premium adding dignity & time cost to poorer people; eg for women accessing period products and bras.
Too many 1st hand examples of services designed to treat low income households poorly Fair By Design
Starting in 2 hours.
The Fabian Society online event on their new report in partnership with Fair By Design.
With Tulip Siddiq Martin Coppack Dave Mendes da Costa Ben Cooper Caroline Cawley & Andrew Harrop
Join us and The Fabian Society for the online launch event of their latest report “Cost Cutters: A plan to tackle the poverty premium and make markets work for low-income families.”
➡️Tuesday 7th May
➡️13.00 – 14.30
➡️Watch online via YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=KJMp2T…
'Now is the time to put consumers and low income-families at the heart of decision making.'
Read my article for The House magazine on why regulators should listen to consumers - and we can make sure they do.
politicshome.com/thehouse/artic…
This week's The Fabian Society report found the poverty premium, the extra cost people in poverty spend on essential services, is £444 per household.
During a cost-of-living crisis, people in poverty have been hit by a huge sum just because they are poor.
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Delighted to see this report by The Fabian Society in partnership with Fair By Design out today. Would be fantastic to see Government committing to get rid of the poverty premium which costs people on low incomes £444 a year on average...
🌟Out today 🌟
New The Fabian Society report 'Cost Cutters: A plan to tackle the poverty premium and make markets work for low-income families'
In partnership with Fair By Design. Key findings and recommendations. ⬇️📷 ⬇️
'People on the lowest incomes are affected most. They even pay higher prices for essential goods and services because they have a low income.'
Great to see coverage of The Fabian Society & Ben Cooper report on the poverty premium in LabourList today.
labourlist.org/2024/04/cost-l…