https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/major-programme/housing-indicators/ Housing is fundamental to living standards. It is most families’ largest expense, meaning disposable incomes are highly sensitive to changes in rents or mortgage payments. Our 12 housing indicators track how housing is affecting living standards in the UK. Using data from 13 separate sources, some of the indicators below describe the situation today…
Housing Outlook Q2 2025
https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications/housing-outlook-q2-2025/ Housing is fundamental to living standards. It’s no surprise that a Government committed to raising living standards has put housing at the heart of its agenda – most notably through its ambition to build 1.5 million new homes by the end of this Parliament. And it is most families’ largest expense, meaning that disposable…
Secretive DWP Welfare Algorithms Put Millions’ Rights at Risk
https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-releases/37614/ Secretive DWP Welfare Algorithms Put Millions’ Rights at Risk Millions of people across the UK are being profiled by biased algorithms every year by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), with the high-tech tools threatening data rights on a mass scale while officials fight to keep details out of public view. ‘Suspicion by…
What is a Money Bill?
https://publiclawproject.org.uk/blog/what-is-a-money-bill/ Last Tuesday, the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payments Bill had its second reading in the House of Commons. The Bill, which forms part of a wider set of welfare reforms, sought to change Universal Credit rates and restrict eligibility for Personal Independence Payments. During Tuesday’s debate, the Government committed to drop the latter,…
A year of Labour but no progress: JRF’s cost of living tracker, summer 2025
https://www.jrf.org.uk/cost-of-living/jrfs-cost-of-living-tracker-summer-2025 A year into the new Labour Government, key hardship measures show no improvement — over 7 million low-income families are still going without essentials. For low-income families with 3 or more children, the situation is acute, with almost 9 in 10 families going without the essentials, and the highest number of families in arrears…
Unpacking the rising cost of essentials for low-to-middle income Britain
https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications/bare-necessities/ Essentials take up more of households’ total spending than they have in the past, with spending on essentials for low-income households increasing the most. A more essentials-heavy spending basket also left poorer families facing faster price growth in recent years. Higher energy costs, coupled with rapid food inflation, have led to hardship for many….
Universal Credit claimants statistics on the two child limit policy, April 2025
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/universal-credit-claimants-statistics-on-the-two-child-limit-policy-april-2025/universal-credit-claimants-statistics-on-the-two-child-limit-policy-april-2025 The statistics show: in April 2025, 469,780 Universal Credit households were affected by the two child limit policy: that is, they had a third or subsequent child born on or after 6 April 2017. This was an increase of 13,520 (3%) from the total number of households affected on either Universal Credit or Child…
Universal Credit Bill passes Committee stage and Third Reading in the Commons
https://www.rightsnet.org.uk/welfare-rights/news/item/universal-credit-bill-passes-committee-stage-and-third-reading-in-the-commons Following a 6-hour debate and vote, newly re-named Bill is passed by 336 votes to 242 The newly re-named Universal Credit Bill has passed its remaining stages in the Commons.
Today’s debate on the UC & PIP Bill hasn’t resolved huge gaps in the severe conditions criteria
https://medium.com/@ayaz_manji/todays-debate-on-the-uc-pip-bill-hasn-t-resolved-huge-gaps-in-the-severe-conditions-criteria-97d40ce01d58 What’s the issue? The provisions in the bill will cut the Universal Credit health element in half for most people receiving it after April 2026. By 2030 this will be a cut of £3,000 per year for 750,000 disabled people. The severe conditions criteria set out in Schedule 1 provides some protection from this…
Government revives family services, supporting 500,000 more kids
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