UK Poverty - what does it mean?

Poverty in the UK - find out what it means
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[AbortedBabysInMakeUp]

Changes from 1 April 2011

From 1 April 2011 the rates for Local Housing Allowance will be reduced across the country:

Weekly excess

The maximum £15 weekly excess that some customers can get will be removed.

Limits on payments

A limit will be introduced so that Local Housing Allowance does not exceed:

£250 a week for a one bedroom property (including shared accommodation)

£290 a week for a two bedroom property

£340 a week for a three bedroom property

£400 a week for a four bedroom property

[trippy119]

@taniaarthur yes it is, because were supposed one of the wealthiest nations in world, the disparities in wealth are huge in the uk, its a differant kind of poverty to the poorer nations. poverty over here is having to live where people piss in the street & kick the fuck out of your kids, having no car or money to enjoy the finer things in life, not being able to eat out or have a day out because the cost of living is so expensive and a minimum wage means your even worse off than the dole!!

[johammbass]

Lol, America's "poor" are rich compared to these guys. Socialism fails, as usual

[Shukria123]

and then they wonder why they riot...

[MrMelodynelson]

that make me....sick. Portugal and Greece is the best defenition for the meaning of poverty in Europe..(A poor man in UK, is a sick man-with a mental disorder...."Icecream after scool"?).....because most part of portugueses goes to other country (UK TOO!!) and ----------->that is what poverty means and does!!

[ClarksonsinUSA]

What seems odd to me,since the UK has to few jobs????Why is the mass immigration from outside the UK allowed....It makes the situation worse....

[ShinEmperor]

We are conditioned to believe that "hard work = success" in the west but it's a myth. In fact, there are actual poor in modern nations as well. Just do a quick google search of the term "Working poor" and there are examples of hard working people who are homeless and work. Wages haven't moved in decades and the cost of living has soared, there is poverty in the west. The simple truth is that the rich get richer, the middle class get squeezed and fall into poverty and the poor die.

[469jasper]

@takeachillpill2010 right on

[469jasper]

@spotswood4444 relative poverty is the condition of having fewer resources or less income than others within a society or a country

[469jasper]

@hooplemott the rich get richer the poor get poorer if it was for the poor there would be no rich and middleclass If I had billions of dollars I would take all of the poor people from Canada and the states and the Uk and buy land somewhere in the world where all the poor people would unite make there own country