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'Poverty premium' for low income families

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A report from Barnardo's has criticised credit providers who charge families on low incomes up to two-and-a-half times more to rent basic household items such as cookers, fridges and washing machines than it would cost to buy them from a high street provider.

Anne Marie Carrie, chief executive of Barnardo's outlines their findings.


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