Dear Rachel Reeves: if there is no alternative to cuts, at least do them with care
Media - March 13, 2025
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Various indicators point to a deterioration in population mental health – likely contributing to rising disability benefit caseloads
Media - March 12, 2025
The role of changing health in rising health-related benefit claims
Report, IFS Report Series - March 1, 2025
Hours of work and the long-run effects of in-work transfers
Journal Article - August 20, 2024
320,000 people pushed into poverty because of mortgage interest rate rises
Media - July 25, 2024
Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2024
Report, IFS Report Series, R329 - July 15, 2024
Inequalities in disability
Report, IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities - August 15, 2023
Do work search requirements work? Evidence from a UK reform targeting single parents
Research Paper, IFS Working Paper Series, 23/02 - February 1, 2023
Health leaders welcome Long Covid Action Plan but further detail needed
Media - July 28, 2022
More than 100,000 British workers are off sick with long Covid
Media - July 27, 2022
Long Covid sufferers lose £1,100 pay a month
Media - July 27, 2022
COVID-19: people living in poverty more likely to get long COVID, study suggests
Media - July 27, 2022
110,000 workers missing from work as a result of long COVID at a cost of £1.5 billion a year in lost earnings
Media - July 27, 2022
Long COVID and the labour market
Research Paper, IFS Briefing Notes, BN246 - July 15, 2022
Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2022
Report, IFS Report Series, R215 - July 15, 2022
Living standards of working-age disability benefits recipients in the UK
Research Paper, IFS Working Paper Series, 22/24 - July 15, 2022
Benefit cuts since 2010 increased UK child poverty in run-up to pandemic, says IFS
Media - July 14, 2022
Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2021
Report, IFS Report Series, R194 - July 15, 2021
Material living standards held up surprisingly well through the pandemic on average – but the self-employed, low-income working families, and people from ethnic minority groups suffered increased deprivation
Media - July 8, 2021
A method for decomposing the impact of reforms on the long-run income distribution, with an application to universal credit
Journal Article - July 15, 2020
The effects of coronavirus on household finances and financial distress
Research Paper, Institute for Fiscal Studies Briefing Notes, BN298 - June 15, 2020
Almost two million adults will be £1,000 a year worse off under Universal Credit
Media - April 26, 2019
Universal credit to see 1.9 million people lose more than £1,000 per year, IFS finds
Media - April 25, 2019
Universal Credit set to leave 1.9million people worse off by £1,000 a year
Media - April 24, 2019
Millions of claimants ‘will be poorer under universal credit’
Media - April 24, 2019
Almost 2m people will lose £1,000 a year with universal credit – study
Media - April 24, 2019
Universal credit and its impact on household incomes: the long and the short of it
Research Paper, IFS Briefing Notes, BN248 - April 15, 2019
Latest income inequality figures show we may have reached peak pensioner
Media - June 25, 2018
Mental and physical health issues mean you’re FAR more likely to be in poverty – and it’s not remotely OK
Media - June 20, 2018
Middle income households faring best since the crash, report finds
Media - June 20, 2018
Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2018
Report - June 15, 2018