Essential minimum living costs increased by 1.8% in the past year with a cumulative increase of 18.8% nationally since 2020.<\/p>\n
The figures are contained in the annual Minimum Essential Standard of Living (MESL) report published by the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul.<\/p>\n
The research team found that households with older children (second-level age) were at a greater risk of deep income inadequacy when dependent on social welfare.<\/p>\n
The cost of children aged 12-years and over is the highest of any other age group according to research.<\/p>\n
At \u20ac158 per week in 2025, social welfare meets 64% of needs for this age-group.<\/p>\n
The cost of the needs of a primary school age child is \u20ac98, while the needs of a preschool-age child costs \u20ac72 per week.<\/p>\n
The report also found that the essential standard of living needs for a one parent household with a primary and second-level child cost \u20ac555 per week.<\/p>\n
When dependent on social welfare supports, income only met 82% of this household’s minimum needs.<\/p>\n
The cost of a minimum basket of goods for an urban single adult in minimum wage full-time employment rose by 5.6% in 2025.<\/p>\n
The report said that while employment generally improves household income, the adequacy of the national minimum wage “continues to be a concern”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Essential minimum living costs increased by 1.8% in the past year with a cumulative increase of 18.8% nationally…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[51,1700,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-190782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114696892174197599","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}