UK households suffer biggest financial hit since 1970s due to coronavirus
Average income falls 4.5{998ff540fe94a59c7c9828c4dd5223100610db67cea90947d11644c77e05f5f4} in May compared with start of outbreak, thinktank says
British households have suffered the biggest hit to their finances since the oil crisis of the mid-1970s as the coronavirus pandemic threatens to inflict severe financial hardship across the country.
Against a backdrop of rising job losses four months into the crisis, the Resolution Foundation thinktank said the average household in Britain had suffered a 4.5{998ff540fe94a59c7c9828c4dd5223100610db67cea90947d11644c77e05f5f4} drop in income in the month of May, compared with their average monthly income level in the financial year ending March 2020, before the crisis struck.