{"id":62639,"date":"2017-08-22T07:48:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T11:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=62639"},"modified":"2017-08-22T07:48:18","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T11:48:18","slug":"pa-c-of-e-bishops-call-for-new-approach-from-government-over-benefits-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=62639","title":{"rendered":"(PA) C of E Bishops call for new approach from Government over benefits freeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bishops have called on the Government to urgently review its benefits freeze after a &#8220;deeply disturbing&#8221; report found poor working parents did not have the cash needed to look after children. <\/p>\n<p>Low paid families are taking a &#8220;double hit&#8221; because earnings are failing to keep up with inflation and many welfare payments have been frozen, the Bishop of Gloucester said.<\/p>\n<p>The struggles faced by parents on the national living wage have been laid out in a report by Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG).<\/p>\n<p>Families working full time are 13% or \u00a359 a week short of the amount needed to provide their children with a minimum standard of living, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>The Cost Of A Child 2017 found the shortfall for lone and out-of-work of parents was even starker.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.finance.yahoo.com\/news\/bishops-call-approach-government-over-082115631.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bishops have called on the Government to urgently review its benefits freeze after a &#8220;deeply disturbing&#8221; report found poor working parents did not have the cash needed to look after children. Low paid families are taking a &#8220;double hit&#8221; because<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=62639\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,389,635,149,199,168,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-economy","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62640,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62639\/revisions\/62640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}