Stay at home mums ARE penalised by the benefit system, economists find

Couples with children and mothers who stay at home are being penalised by the benefits system which favours lone parents, economists concluded yesterday.

The respected Institute for Fiscal Studies found that while the number of couples with children in poverty shot up last year, the numbers of poor single parents came down.

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And a third more families with just one parent working are below the poverty line than when Labour came to power in 1997.