Over a Million Children of Key Workers are Living in Poverty
Research commissioned by the TUC suggests that over a million children in poverty are children of key worker families. The importance of this research is that all these children are in households where one or both parents work and some will be paying income tax.
Profiling by Tax and the Family using our new tax benefit modelling tables has shown that some families in poverty can be paying significant amounts of income tax. The Office of National Statistics works on the basis that a couple with two children needs almost two and a half times more income than a single adult without children to have the same standard of living. The income tax system ignores this with the result that some families in poverty pay income tax.