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Pensions: five key decisions for the next government
Cribb, Jonathan; Karjalainen, Heidi; O'Brien, Laurence - 2024
The current generation of pensioners has, in general, been better served by the UK's mix of state and private pension provision than earlier generations were. Pensioners today have disposable incomes - once you take account of housing costs and children - that on average are similar to those...
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Recent trends in and the outlook for health-related benefits
Ray-Chaudhuri, Sam; Waters, Tom - 2024
Individuals in the UK with health conditions may be entitled to two types of benefits - incapacity benefits (for those … whose condition prevents them from working) and disability benefits (to help with extra living costs arising from the … 'health-related' benefits - and official projections suggest that claimant numbers will rise further still. Whoever wins the …
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The medium-term outlook and choices
Boileau, Bee; Phillips, David; Ray-Chaudhuri, Sam; … - 2024
This chapter of our second annual Budget Report looks beyond 2024-25 to the medium-term outlook for the Scottish Government's funding, and the implications of the funding picture for the choices and trade-offs faced when allocating funding between areas of the budget. The Scottish Government had...
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Universal credit: Incomes, incentives and the remaining roll-out
Ray-Chaudhuri, Sam; Waters, Tom - 2024
The introduction of universal credit (UC) has been the most significant reform to the workingage benefits system since …-age families - will be entitled to the benefit. UC is an integrated means-tested benefit that is replacing six 'legacy' benefits … getting means-tested benefits. We then briefly review the issues around the rest of UC's roll-out. …
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Reforms, roll-outs and freezes in the tax and benefit system
Waters, Tom; Wernham, Tom - 2022
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Living standards and inequality
Ray-Chaudhuri, Sam; Xu, Xiaowei - 2023
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The policy menu for school lunches: Options and tradeoffs in expanding free school meals in England
Cribb, Jonathan; Farquharson, Christine; McKendrick, Andrew - 2023
are receiving certain means-tested benefits and on very low incomes. Since 2014, all children in the first three years of …
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Analysis of Scottish tax and benefit reforms
Waters, Tom; Wernham, Tom - 2023
We analyse the impact of changes to devolved income tax rates and bands and benefits, and show the total impact of the …
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Poverty
Ray-Chaudhuri, Sam; Waters, Tom; Xu, Xiaowei - 2023
We investigate recent trends in poverty, and government policies aimed at alleviating it.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014470230
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The effects of reforms to the Work Capability Assessment for incapacity benefits
Ray-Chaudhuri, Sam; Waters, Tom - 2023
We investigate the potential impacts of the government's proposed reforms to the Work Capability Assessment.
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