The Government has proposed the largest cuts to social security since 2015. As well as reducing expenditure on health-related benefits, the Government hopes these reforms will support more disabled ...

Responding to the Chancellor’s Spring Statement and the publication of the government’s impact assessment for their planned cuts to disability benefits, Paul Kissack, Chief Executive of the Joseph ...

Discussion ahead of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) statement on 26 March has focused on whether the Chancellor will meet her fiscal rule, and the extent to which near unprecedented cuts ...

Key points. In 2022/23, 35.9% of all individuals in the UK were living in households with incomes below MIS, compared with 27.2% in 2008/09. This means 24.0 million people were living below MIS in ...

A strong economy can increase wages and employment but will not in itself reduce poverty. This new analysis, updating work from September 2024 with new Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) and Bank ...

Building connections, through convening organisations with both tech and social/environmental missions, is seen as beneficial. Such collaborations could set agendas outside the commercial influence of ...

Tackling hardship for people receiving work-related disability benefits. People receiving ‘work-related disability benefits’ – health-related Universal Credit (UC) or Employment and Support Allowance ...

New modelling from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation shows that poverty is set to rise for all family types except pensioners. The analysis shows families with children will see the biggest hit to their ...

Poverty rates over time. Poverty in Scotland fell rapidly over the decade from 1999–2002 to 2009–12, from 24% (1.2 million people) to a low of 18% (900,000 people).

Primary schools and GP surgeries are staggering under the weight of hardship. Anyone serious about improving them needs an urgent action plan for tackling hardship.

Our team is comprised of a core group of 10 people with lived and learnt knowledge of poverty and poverty stigma. 1 We are from a range of class, ethnic, racial and religious backgrounds. Our team ...