The i's Vicky Spratt shares her personal experiences of growing up and feeling a sense of shame accepting free school meals because of attitudes to welfare. But how attitudes are changing now that public support for more generous welfare benefits is at its highest level for more than two decades.

This week, our new Poverty in Wales report revealed that even before coronavirus, almost a quarter of people in Wales were in poverty (700,000) living precarious and insecure lives. The risk for children was higher with 3 in 10 children living in poverty.

At the end of Boris Johnson's announcement of the new lockdown measures last week, he also announced the extension of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. Our Senior Economist, Rebecca McDonald, discusses how it will provide an essential lifeline for workers, but the way it was announced will reduce its ability to protect jobs.

On Saturday, when the mortgage holiday scheme ended, a large-scale survey of British mortgage-holders has revealed that 1.6 million households (20% of all British mortgage-holders) are worried about paying their mortgage over the next three months.