All news on the topic: Living standards

'Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is gambling voters will swallow the sugar-rush of tax cuts and ignore the bitter taste of further public spending cuts,' the Mirror's Jason Beattie writes

TUC general secretary Paul Nowak warns that "zombie" Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has put forward a "deeply cynical" budget while public services are on their knees

Ahead of the Budget, figures show that household incomes have risen significantly slower under the Conservatives than when Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were in No10

In 138 out of a list of Labour leader Keir Starmer's possible 150 target seats - currently held by the Tories or the SNP - pressure on families' budgets is the top issue

Labour’s Angela Rayner will pledge to give communities the power to make decisions on skills training, housing and planning as she speaks at the Convention of the North

A 67-year-old pensioner told The Mirror how he was “scared” about the future and had been forced to take a job as a taxi driver after he was surviving on just £6 a month

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Personal Independence Payment - or PIP for short - is a benefit designed to help working age adults living with an illness, disability or mental health condition

There are concerns there will be yet more savage cuts to decimated public services - the Office for National Statistics, on Thursday, said the economy shrank by a worse-than-feared 0.3% in the final three months of last year

Justice Secretary Alex Chalk's campaign team delivered election leaflets in Cheltenham claiming there's 'good news' for the economy as Britain slipped into recession

The Canary Islands - made up of Tenerife, Lanzarote, Gran Canaria, Tenerife, La Gomera, La Palma, Fuerteventura and El Hierro - are hugely popular holiday destinations

The new Retirement Living Standards index shows how much money you need in later life to cover basic expenses, as well as luxuries - with the cost of living adding to expectations

If we don’t change things pronto, this inequality of wealth that divides our nation is going to get worse and worse. On current trends, Britain’s super-rich are set to multiply their fortunes by 91 times more than everyone else by 2028

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One of the main indexes used to judge how much money you need in retirement is the Retirement Living Standards which is calculated by the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association

Big bosses like pharmaceuticals chief Pascal Soriot and weapons manufacturer Charles Woodburn earn over a hundred times more per hour than what an average worker can make in a whole year

Alice Guy, head of pensions and savings at Interactive Investor, has warned pensioners currently need £14,144 each year before tax - but the state pension will rise to £11,501 next April

Rickets affects bone development in children, sometimes leading to deformities. It is most commonly caused by prolonged vitamin D deficiency, as vitamin D helps the body absorb calcium from food

Mirror columnist Rachel Charlton-Dailey looks at how much the 'penny pinching' government are paying out this Christmas and what you can actually buy from the cheapest supermarkets for just £10

The National Parent Survey, commissioned by parenting charity Parentkind, found nearly one in 10 admitted to reading to their kids aged 5 to 11 for fun less than once a month

Students are getting valuable work experience and a shot at being entrepreneurs thanks to a scheme challenging perceptions of disabled people

John Griffiths accused Blue Planet Aquarium in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, of disability discrimination after he was told that the firm's policy does not allow entry for his son's two carers using his season pass

Meghan's biographer says Kate is infantilised and he's not wrong, says Fleet Street Fox. The same is true of everyone in the Royal Family

They told us the 2016 Brexit referendum would control immigration, says Fleet Street Fox. It did the opposite

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt promised a 2p cut to the rate of national insurance in the Autumn Statement in a desperate bid to turn around the Tories' dire poll ratings