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 "title": "People in relative low income after housing costs, UK",
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  "Relative low income after housing costs: household income, adjusted for household size, below 60% of the median for that year once rent, mortgage interest, water and council tax are paid. From DWP's Households Below Average Income statistics, based on the Family Resources Survey.",
  "The series breaks in 2021/22, when DWP began linking the survey to benefit and tax records, so figures before and after are not directly comparable. Figures cover Great Britain until 2001/02 and the UK from 2002/03.",
  "DWP's absolute low income measure is not shown: in 2026 it moved to a new base year for 2021/22 onwards only, which breaks its series until DWP rebases the earlier years."
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