Poor families around the UK need help to cope with rising costs in fuel, travel and food, the Child Poverty Action Group has insisted.
According to the organisation, price rises witnessed in recent months are putting considerable strain on family budgets and risk plunging more people into poverty.
The campaign group's comments followed the publication of data from the Office for National Statistics which indicated that inflation has continued to rise in the last three months.
While food prices were found to have risen by 11.2 per cent, fuel prices soared 39.2 per cent.
"Benefits are already well below the poverty line. If benefits and the minimum wage are not uprated in line with the real costs families face this winter, the safety net has a major hole in it," the group warned.
Elsewhere, Moneyfacts has pointed out that the latest inflation figures indicate that the interest on many people's savings will have been wiped out by the soaring costs of goods and services.
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