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More than half of single mothers ‘locked out of automatic pensions enrolment’

More than half of single mothers do not automatically qualify to be enrolled in a workplace pension, a study has found. Some 58% of single mothers are ineligible to be automatically placed into a workplace pension, up from 45% in 2020, according to ...

21 Mar 2022 at 01:25

Personal Finance

Three in 10 single parents ‘have skipped meals due to rising prices’

Around three in 10 (31%) single-parent households have skipped meals due to rising food prices, according to Which? This is around double the proportion of parents in couples (15%) and 14% of people across the consumer group’s survey generally. ...

24 Nov 2022 at 01:01

Almost half of children in lone-parent families in relative poverty – IFS

Almost half of children in single-parent families in the UK were living in relative poverty at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, new analysis suggests. Some 49% of children in lone-parent families were in relative poverty in 2019-20, ...

04 Jul 2022 at 17:55

Single parents ‘could help fill labour shortage if barriers were removed’

Single parents could help fill labour shortages if barriers to work were removed by employers and the Government, a report has said. The report, published on Monday by the Gingerbread charity, shows that single parents want to work but ...

06 Feb 2023 at 00:01

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Steps’ Ian ‘H’ Watkins on the challenges of being a single dad and his house looking like it’s been burgled

Being a single dad and a pop star doesn’t exactly go hand-in-hand. But doting dad Ian Watkins, aka ‘H’ from Steps, makes it work – although he happily admits: “My children look like jumble sale kids and the house looks like it’s been ...

14 Oct 2022 at 10:30

Personal Finance

Which groups of people are particularly likely to not be coping financially?

Nearly three in 10 (28%) UK adults were not coping financially, or finding it difficult to cope, in January 2024, Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) research indicates. The regulator said people who are more likely to be among this ...

10 Apr 2024 at 00:01

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