Hello John

I hope you are keeping well. This is a very challenging and uncertain time for
all of us, and I know how much you, as a CPAG supporter, care about children and
families living in poverty. I want to share with you what we at CPAG are doing
to support families.

For low-income families, self-isolation and school closures pose particular
challenges. Struggling families having to stay at home with their children may
face falling incomes and need more support.

If your family has lost income or faced additional costs as a result of the
pandemic and you'd like to help us publicise the problems families are facing
please contact us through [email protected] .

We are pushing the government to do more to increase family incomes through our
social security system, including by making universal credit advances
non-repayable and by increasing the amounts families get. Children's needs will
not be any less and many families will struggle as a result of school closures.
We've called for emergency support for children in the form of a £10 increase in
child benefit to go some way towards meeting extra costs.​
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You can find out more here
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Thanks to your support, we can continue to give advice to frontline advisers
throughout this period so they can carry on helping hard-up families. If you're
an adviser you can find out more here
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I'm heartened to read about communities coming together to support each other
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On behalf of all of us at CPAG, we hope you and your family stay safe and well.

With warm wishes,
Lizzie



Lizzie Flew
Child Poverty Action Group







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