Increasing child and working family payments would have biggest impact on poverty rates

Increasing the rate of payment of core working-age benefits would cause the biggest reduction in poverty among adults, the report found. Picture: Denis Minihane.

A new Government research report says that targeted changes to the qualified child and the working family payment would have the biggest impact on reducing the poverty rate for young people.

It also states that increasing the rate of payment of core working-age benefits — such as jobseeker’s allowance, the one-parent family payment, and disability allowance — would cause the biggest reduction in poverty among adults.