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Budget balancing act leaves families braced for tough winter and four-year living standards downturn
Worrying global developments loom over the Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) outlook. Borrowing is up by £11 billion a year on average (prior to the Chancellor’s policy announcements) entirely ...
Today (Monday) the Resolution Foundation has announced that Louise Hellem has been appointed as its new Deputy Chief Executive and will start on 5 th January 2027.
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 ...
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 ...
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Low-income private renters face record gap between the rents they pay and Local Housing Allowance
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 ...
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 ...
It’s less than two weeks till the Budget and we’ve published our take on the key decisions – and constraints – facing Chancellor Healey. If you don’t have time for all 50 pages, we’ve got your primer ...
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 the rest of the UK are calculated by ...
One-in-six (16 per cent) working-age PIP recipients report no additional costs linked to their disability, suggesting that the current system is failing to effectively match support to those it was ...
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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