Income poverty affects third of UK population

19.3 million people had disposable income of below 60% of national median in at least one year between 2010 and 2013

Almost a third of the UK population experienced income poverty in at least one year between 2010 and 2013, official data shows.

The figures, published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on Wednesday, show that approximately 19.3 million people had a disposable income of below 60% of the national median at some point during the four-year period.

The proportion of the UK population who experienced income poverty was higher than that across the EU as a whole, where the figure was a quarter.

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