These rumoured cuts would be the largest in social security for a decade, since George Osborne’s 2015 Budget. They'd be 3 times the size of the (subsequently cancelled) cuts Iain Duncan Smith resigned ...

Ursula O’Hare is the Head of Northern Ireland where she leads all aspects of our NI work. Prior to joining JRF, Ursula was CEO of the Northern Ireland Law Centre and Vice-Chair of the Law Centres ...

More pounds in people’s pockets? In her Budget speech in October 2024, Rachel Reeves said she wanted ‘more pounds in people’s pockets’ and ‘to improve living standards’. But when we compare average ...

Assessing the prospects for living standards is an important part of every fiscal event, but will be increasingly important going forward, given the Prime Minister’s commitment to ‘higher living ...

Join Smart Data Foundry and JRF for an enlightening webinar on the transformative power of the Income Volatility data infrastructure and its positive impact on policy. Discover how this innovative ...

JRF are exploring accelerating a fair transition to net zero and putting low-income households at the heart of climate action.' ...

New analysis from NEF and JRF examines the consequences of potential cuts and reveals the elevated levels of hardship facing ...

around 5 in 6 low-income households on Universal Credit are currently going without essentials support has eroded over decades and the basic rate (‘standard allowance’) of Universal Credit is now at ...

This report, from the Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP), is the 12th in a series monitoring the number of people living beneath the Minimum Income Standard in the UK. It focuses on 3 groups ...