'Benefit erosion' could double child poverty in 20 years, says report/Guardian, Wednesday April 9 2008 http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/apr/09/welfare.socialexclusion?gusrc=rss&feed=politics

"Child poverty could almost double over the next two decades as a result of the government's approach to raising benefits, a report said today.

A study published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation said that increasing benefit payments in line with prices instead of earnings – which has been standard Whitehall practice for many years – was penalising the poor."