The poverty premium – the term referring to the extra cost of being poor, which currently costs the 14 million low-income UK households £490 a year each. In her latest blog, Jonquil Lowe, Senior Lecturer in Economics and Personal Finance, talks about a workshop held by The Finance Innovation Lab to generate ideas to tackle the Poverty Premium. Read Jonquil’s blog to find out more, and you can also follow Jonquil on Twitter, where she tweets as @PersFinRes.