The British government’s policies of austerity are directly linked to a rise in poverty in the United Kingdom, a United Nations expert said in a scathing report Friday after a two-week fact-finding ...

Figures released recently by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) from their Annual Report on Fuel Poverty Statistics 2011 show a large rise in British households suffering from fuel ...

A report on the state of the British Army released this month revealed considerable resentment amongst ordinary soldiers over low pay, leading many into financial difficulties, under-nourishment and ...

The latest outrage in Britain is that child poverty is increasing. Or at least that is what we are being told, that this is an outrage. The truth being a little more simple, which is that we are not ...

The UK has the fourth highest child mortality rate, third worst relative poverty and lowest funded health care in the Western world, new research concludes. The study did present some good news, as ...

Poverty costs the U.K. taxpayer £78 billion a year in additional public service spending and lost taxes, according to a report. The research, commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, estimated ...

The Energy Support Fund is available for existing British Gas customers who are in energy debt or at risk of fuel poverty ...