ChrisMayLA6, There are many interesting & important conclusions in the Joseph Rowntree report on the causes of deep #poverty & how to escape it, but one thing immediately leaped out (given discussions of inter-generational fairness & #pension provision):
'73% of people aged 55 or over who were living in very deep poverty moved out of very deep poverty when they started to receive their state pension' !
As this suggests there's a significant progressive element to the state pension!
https://www.jrf.org.uk/report/what-protects-people-very-deep-poverty-and-what-makes-it-more-likely