Claim: Child poverty and pensioner poverty are up since 2010.
Fact-check: Is child and pensioner poverty rising? - Full Fact
Verdict: relative poverty has increased or stayed flat among children and pensioners, depending on how you measure it, but absolute poverty has fallen in some cases. we've asked the department for work and pensions whether any of these changes are statistically significant.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Claire Milne;Sinéad Boultwood
Date published: 2017-04-21T00:00:00