Official data on the distribution of household incomes in the UK are available only with a significant lag: the latest … things are likely to evolve in the coming years. Essentially, we estimate the implications for household incomes of policy …

The focus of this report is the distribution of household income in the UK. We assess the changes to average incomes …, income inequality and poverty that occurred in the latest year of data (2014-15), and put these in historical context using …

How have household incomes evolved since the onset of the financial crisis? How has the gap between rich and poor … changed? How have living standards changed over time for different parts of the population? How many people are in poverty and … which groups are most likely to face poverty? Each year, the government produces statistics about the distribution of income …

and poverty. This is the 22nd annual report published by IFS authors on living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK … distribution of household income changed during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Second, we use pre-pandemic data on child … poverty and material deprivation to examine the situation facing poor families with children prior to the pandemic. …