The impact of work, benefits and housing on experiences of very deep poverty

Briefing The impact of work, benefits and housing on experiences of very deep poverty Work offers some protection from moving into very deep poverty, and from living in very deep poverty for a prolonged period of time; people in families with more adults in work are less likely to experience persistent very deep poverty. [...] Entry rate into very deep poverty – The proportion of people not in very deep poverty who move into very deep poverty the following year. [...] Exit rate from very deep poverty – The proportion of people in very deep poverty who move out of very deep poverty the following year. [...] Work helps to protect people from very deep poverty, but the quality of work matters Work is strongly associated with experiences of very deep poverty, with working households much less likely than workless households to move into very deep poverty or experience prolonged periods of very deep poverty. [...] This means that more than four in ten people in families with no adult in work experience very deep poverty in at least one year out of four, compared with fewer than two in ten people in households with one but not all adults in work and one in ten where all adults are in work.