A quarter of Portugal’s Population is poor, despite a €79 increase in the average monthly household income last year.

The figures from the Income and Living Conditions from the National Statistics Institute showed 2,595 million people, including 487,000 under 18s and 468,000 over 65s, were barely scraping by and were classified as poor, or close to poverty and social exclusion.

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