Using data from Understanding Society, this report looks at the magnitude, causes, and distribution of the carer pay penalty, as well as its evolution over time. Recommendations: Tackling the caring ...

Key messages: This report draws on detailed analysis of past housing market downturns and current market conditions to argue the downturn is likely to manifest in four key areas: A slowdown in ...

This new JRF research looks at the precarious position of the worst-off 40% of households at the moment the Chancellor announced his May 2022 cost of living support package. Recommendations The ...

'Work first' is a core idea that underpins the UK's employment and welfare systems, and effective ‘work first’ orientated systems have long-term, paid employment as the primary goal for people ...

This report looks at whether people can reach current levels of MIS based on benefits, Universal Credit (UC) and the National Living Wage. It also looks at preliminary research on the effect of the ...

During the coronavirus storm these structural inequalities played a part in worsening housing insecurity and health issues for BAME communities. They include deep inequalities in the labour markets, ...

Figure 1 also shows the proportion of individuals in the UK who were living in households with incomes below 75% of what is needed for a minimum socially acceptable standard of living between 2008/09 ...

Nearly one in five households on low incomes in Scotland have gone hungry and cold this year, even before we enter the winter months. The UK Government must, as we have been saying for some time, ...

Our analysis underlines the importance of work, social security and housing costs in solving poverty in Wales, as well as how much the coronavirus storm has unleashed strong currents sweeping many ...

Key points 2022 had the greatest fall in the value of the basic rate of unemployment benefits since the start of annual uprating in 1972, fifty years ago. In eight of the ten April upratings between ...

This report shows the current state of poverty in Scotland. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic Scotland has blighted by poverty with a million people, including a quarter of a million children, trapped ...

In recent years, the labour market has seen record employment rates and the introduction of the National Living Wage, but despite these positive developments more and more people in working families ...