Claim: Poverty is being redefined to remove any reference to income.
Fact-check: Ask Full Fact: is poverty being redefined to remove any reference to income? - Full Fact
Verdict: a bill going through parliament contains plans to replace existing income indicators of child poverty with ones that focus on worklessness and educational attainment. the annual statistics on the income measures will still be published but they won't be the government's main poverty indicators.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Amy Sippitt
Date published: 2015-12-22T00:00:00