Analysis by Sky News suggests that one in ten of the UK’s poorest households are getting into debt – just to finance day-to-day life.
Working families are running out of money every month with a lack of affordable housing, combined with high interest loans – often from illegal loan sharks – meaning they are in a permanent struggle to survive.
Sky’s Sally Lockwood has this special report on the latest in our ‘New Lines’ series – examining life in Britain in 2019.
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