#52026DC0538EU Anti-Poverty Strategy from Childhood to Old Age
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The strategy sets out the EU’s plan to reduce and prevent poverty across every stage of life, with a long-term ambition to help eradicate poverty in the EU by 2050. It focuses on children, young people, working-age adults and older people, and links poverty prevention to jobs, benefits, housing, care, education, basic services and protection from rising living costs. For governments, social services, employers, schools, care providers and civil society groups, the practical message is that anti-poverty policy should be better coordinated and more targeted. The Commission plans new recommendations and reports on child benefits, in-work poverty, income support take-up, old-age protection, housing exclusion, access to services and energy poverty, while asking Member States to strengthen national anti-poverty frameworks and appoint high-level anti-poverty coordinators.
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Key Changes
- Sets a first EU-wide Anti-Poverty Strategy with the goal of reducing poverty across the full life cycle and supporting the 2030 poverty reduction target.
- Plans new EU guidance and recommendations on child benefits, in-work poverty, income support take-up, housing exclusion, access to services, energy poverty and old-age protection.
- Calls on Member States to strengthen national anti-poverty strategies, use better impact assessments, and appoint high-level Anti-Poverty Coordinators.