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Almost 400,000 more UK children and 300,000 more pensioners plunged into poverty in past four years, new study finds The Joseph Rowntree Foundation report highlights the first sustained increases in child and pensioner poverty for 20 years. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images Richard Partington Hundreds of thousands of children and older people have been plunged into poverty in the past four years, according to a stark analysis laying bare the challenge to families trying to keep up with the cost of living in Britain. The research from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) found almost 400,000 more children and 300,000 more pensioners in the UK were living in poverty last year compared with 2012-13, the first sustained increases in child and pensioner poverty for 20 years. The foundation warned that decades of progress were at risk of being unravelled amid weak wage growth and rising inflation. The thinktank urged the government to unfreeze benef...