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Today, Trust for London published our London Poverty Profile 2013; the fourth in series of reports looking at a range of indicators of poverty and disadvantage. These include low…

Patrick Butler’s recent Guardian article, drawing on testimonies of people in Liverpool forced to choose whether to go without meals or heating, is extraordinary. No doubt the…

Much of the discussion of welfare reform, from us and others, centres on the headline changes - for instance, the introduction of the bedroom tax or the benefit cap. Much less is…

With cuts to various benefits starting to hit and other major welfare changes looming, 2013 marks a particularly pivotal moment in the history of the welfare state.  As such, the…

Deafened by the interminable call for reforms to ‘make work pay’, it’s easy to forget that plenty of families receiving state benefits are already working. Our report for JRF tries…

Last week, Alex Morton from Policy Exchange argued that "more homes, tailored to the needs of older homeowners, will help free up family-sized properties for the younger…

As part of the Hanover@50 debate about the future of housing for older people which launched last week, the Fabian Society considered the implications of increasing incomes among…

Over the last week, the NPI blog has been examining the merits of this April’s package of benefit reforms without relying on the fact that their adverse impacts are usually…

Over the past few days, we have been assessing the benefit changes coming into effect this April but without criticising them simply because they hit people who are poor or…

A great deal of attention has been paid to the many individual changes to social security that are taking place this month. Not known are the combined impacts – when individuals…

This week, we are posting a series of blogs that look at the main changes to social security benefits introduced this ‘Black April’. Today we are looking at the overall benefit…

This week, we are posting a series of blogs that look at the main changes to social security benefits introduced this ‘Black April’. All impact mainly or wholly on low income…

This week, in a series of blogs, we are looking at the five main changes to social security benefits being introduced this ‘Black April’. All impact mainly or wholly on low income…

Today, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation publishes research conducted by the New Policy Institute on the localisation of Council Tax Benefit. In April 2013 Council Tax Benefit will be…

Local Government Minister, Brandon Lewis, announced today that all councils that bid for transitional grant funding to assist in the first year of running council tax support will…

The wording of the Welfare Benefits Uprating Bill, which limits the annual increases in tax credits and most working-age social security benefits to 1% in both 2014 and 2015, is…

It has been widely rumoured that the Chancellor will announce in the Autumn Statement on Wednesday that the value of some benefits will be frozen to reduce the public sector…

Every year, the New Policy Institute produces a comprehensive overview of patterns and trends in poverty and social exclusion for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. In this, our…

For those people celebrating the 70th anniversary of his report this week, the reality is that we have never been further away from Beveridge than we are now. Another graph from…

This year, for the first time, Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion featured a chapter on disability. This forced us to think about how we measure poverty among disabled people…