The average shortfall between Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates and the 30 th percentile rent level has now reached an all-time high of 23.3 per cent – equivalent to a £170 a month ‘affordability ...

The share of workers in low pay failed to fall the first time in 15 years, and in fact rose slightly on last year, the Resolution Foundation said today (Thursday) in response to the ONS Annual Survey ...

Over the last decade, Britain’s welfare system has malfunctioned. In May 2026, there were 8.4 million people in families receiving Universal Credit (UC); 5.2 million of these were out of work (in ...

The UK’s relatively strong economic performance this year may finally be starting to feed through into the labour market, with payrolled employment and private sector wage strengthening over the ...

Disability support and especially Personal Independence Payments (PIP) is failing on two grounds – spiralling costs are putting pressure on the public finances and those that need the benefit have ...

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Mike is Deputy Chief Executive of the Resolution Foundation. He is also a Visiting Professor in Practice at the Department of Social Policy at the LSE. Between 2011 and 2020, he was a Professor of ...

No two labour markets are alike. But in recent years the UK and the US have rhymed. Both have seen decent pay growth for the lowest earners, though by different routes: a rising minimum wage in the UK ...

This briefing note sets out the method through which the real Living Wage rates (a voluntary hourly pay rate based on what families need to get by) in London and… This report sets out the method ...

The past five years of a near-continuous cost of living crisis have caused the real incomes of typical working-age households to fall rather than grow, leaving them £2,900 (7.9 per cent) worse off ...

Local government finances have long been desperately strained, caught between a sharp squeeze in grants from the centre over the austerity years, and rising obligations to social care and special ...