Analysis of the proportion of the population that are affected by an increase in their cost of living and of the characteristics associated with financial vulnerability.
renters (4.7 higher odds) and mortgage holders (2.0 higher odds) had higher odds of experiencing financial vulnerability compared with those who own their home outright
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other groups with higher odds of experiencing financial vulnerability included adults aged 25 to 34 years (3.4 higher odds compared with those aged 75 years and over) and disabled adults (1.9 higher odds compared with non-disabled adults)
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around 1 in 20 (5%) of adults reported that in the past two weeks they had ran out of food and had been unable to afford more, this proportion appeared higher among groups including; those receiving support from charities (45%), living in a household with one adult and at least one child (28%), receiving some form of benefits or financial support (21%), Mixed or Multiple ethnicity adults (14%), Black, African, Caribbean or Black British adults (13%), renters (14%) and disabled adults (9%)
It’s heartbreaking and rather telling that those doing better (older people with a house all paid off) are more classically Tory voters, while those hit hardest are least likely to vote for them and/or are the kind of minority groups that the Tory press likes to pillory.
If Tory voters were being hit hardest you can bet the government would be a lot more motivated to try an ameliorate the impact.
It’s heartbreaking and rather telling that those doing better (older people with a house all paid off) are more classically Tory voters, while those hit hardest are least likely to vote for them and/or are the kind of minority groups that the Tory press likes to pillory.
If Tory voters were being hit hardest you can bet the government would be a lot more motivated to try an ameliorate the impact.