{"id":149212,"date":"2020-06-22T01:01:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T23:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/06\/22\/uk-reports-rise-in-over-50s-struggling-to-pay-for-necessities\/"},"modified":"2020-06-22T01:01:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T23:01:29","slug":"uk-reports-rise-in-over-50s-struggling-to-pay-for-necessities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=149212","title":{"rendered":"UK reports rise in over-50s struggling to pay for necessities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surge in universal credit claims highlights precarious financial situation of demographicIncreasing numbers of people aged over 50 in the UK do not have enough money to pay for basic necessities, a study of labour market statistics has shown.Claims for universal credit, which is available only to households with savings of less than \u00a316,000, from the over-50s have more than doubled since March. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2020\/jun\/22\/uk-reports-rise-in-over-50s-struggling-to-pay-for-necessities\" target=\"_blank\">UK reports rise in over-50s struggling to pay for necessities<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surge in universal credit claims highlights precarious financial situation of demographicIncreasing numbers of people aged over 50 in the UK do not have enough money to pay for basic necessities, a study of labour market statistics has shown.Claims for universal credit, which is available only to households with savings of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}