In her budget this week, the chancellor announced that the UK Government would be removing the ‘two-child limit’, a measure that will lift more than half a million children out of poverty according to the Institute of Fiscal Studies.

This is something I personally welcome, given the devastating impact that poverty has on people’s lives, particularly on the lives of children.

Critics of the policy have highlighted its cost, yet in doing so do not seem to have fully considered the significant costs caused by poverty itself – both to individuals and the public purse.

This is something I examine through the lens of older people’s experiences in my latest report, Older People in Poverty in Wales, which was........

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