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New Reports
The Cost of a Child in 2024
https://cpag.org.uk/news/cost-child-2024 The cost of raising a child to age 18 is £260,000 for a couple and £290,000 for a lone parent.
Stop the freeze: permanently re-link housing benefits to private rents
https://www.jrf.org.uk/housing/stop-the-freeze-permanently-re-link-housing-benefits-to-private-rents The Budget is the perfect opportunity for the Chancellor to prevent renters from being pushed deeper into poverty by permanently re-linking frozen housing benefits to private rents. Unless the Chancellor explicitly chooses to unfreeze Local Housing Allowance (LHA) and re-link it to local rents, it will remain frozen in cash terms for 2025 and…
Welfare trends report – October 2024
https://obr.uk/wtr/welfare-trends-report-october-2024/ Our Welfare trends report (WTR) examines the drivers of welfare spending. In this WTR, we focused on working-age incapacity benefits. It covers the history of incapacity benefits and incapacity benefit onflows and off-flows since 2010.
The Cost of Hunger and Hardship
https://www.trussell.org.uk/news-and-research/publications/report/the-cost-of-hunger-and-hardship This research finds that a record number of people are facing hunger and hardship across the UK, with rates more than a third higher than they were 20 years ago. Without change, things are projected to get worse. Some groups across society are bearing the burden more than most, including children, people living in…
A Roadmap for Reform – the Renters’ Reform Coalition’s Plan for Reforming Private Renting
https://rentersreformcoalition.co.uk/roadmap-reform-renters-reform-coalitions-plan-reforming-private-renting Here is an overview of some of our key recommendations.
Government will need to find better targeted support than Winter Fuel Payments to help the 7.7 million households suffering from fuel stress
https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/press-releases/7-7-million-households-suffering-from-fuel-stress/ 7.7 million households in England are at risk of fuel stress this winter, including the majority of families with children. The Government will therefore need to do more to support vulnerable households who are no longer eligible for Winter Fuel Payments (WFP) and those who never have been, according to new research published by…
Health-related benefit claims have risen substantially across every part of England and Wales – but there is little evidence of similar trends in other countries
https://ifs.org.uk/news/health-related-benefit-claims-have-risen-substantially-across-every-part-england-and-wales The number of working-age people getting health-related benefits in England and Wales has increased significantly since 2019: from 2.8 million (7.5% of the working-age population) in 2019–20 to 3.9 million (10% of the working-age population) in 2023–24 – growth of 38% in just four years. Over this period, real-terms spending on health-related benefits in…
Why scrapping the household benefit cap is vital for families, children and survivors of abuse
123,0000 households are affected by the household benefit cap. The vast majority – 71 per cent – are lone parents with children. The benefit cap limits the total amount a part-time, low-earning or out-of-work household can receive in benefits, trapping families in deep poverty. It is having a disproportionate impact on survivors of domestic abuse…
Empty plates and cold homes: What it’s like to grow up in poverty in 2024
https://www.barnardos.org.uk/research/empty-plates-and-cold-homes-what-its-grow-poverty-2024 Poverty affects every part of a child’s life and leaves too many struggling with their education, health and happiness. Today, more than one in four children in the UK live in poverty and around one million children are living in extreme poverty.