The High Income Child Benefit Charge provides for Child Benefit to be clawed back through the tax system from families where the highest earner has an income in excess of £50,000.
27
Mar
Mar
New Kent-led research on behalf of a coalition of rural charities and housing associations has revealed that the countryside is battling a ‘hidden homelessness’ crisis driven by soaring housing costs and a gaping shortfall in local authority funding.
24
Mar
Mar
Results from the Family Resources Survey (FRS) for the financial year 2021 to 2022, providing information on income and circumstances of UK households.
23
Mar
Mar
As the cost of living crisis rages on, the UK’s social safety net has a critical role to play in protecting people from deepening poverty and destitution.
22
Mar
Mar
The UK’s system of income replacement – financial protection when people leave a job or stop working temporarily – is an inadequate patchwork. Jobseeker’s allowance replaces just 12 per cent of average earnings and statutory sick pay just 16 per cent. For the most part, this falls far behind the support available in other rich countries.
20
Mar
Mar
Economic inactivity has been increasing in the UK. This Insight discusses how people leaving the workforce because of ill-health affects economic inactivity.
17
Mar
Mar
This report presents findings from a study exploring how health and disability benefits are used by recipients alongside other sources of provision and support to meet health and disability related needs
16
Mar
Mar
The government’s proposals to help more disabled people and people with health conditions to start, stay and succeed in work.
This paper provides figures for the number of people claiming unemployment benefits (the “claimant count”) for the UK and by parliamentary constituency.
13
Mar
Mar
Summarising research and analysis from across the homelessness sector, this report outlines the impact of successive freezes in housing benefit (Local Housing Allowance) on low income renters, people experiencing homelessness, and services. Within the cost of living crisis, low income households in the private rented sector are particularly exposed to the economic pressures that can push them into homelessness.