The recent surge in inflation, driven by spectacular increases in energy prices, has driven sharp falls in household living standards, huge government intervention to try to mitigate it, and serious policy headaches. As such it continues to be the backdrop behind many of the most pressing issues...

We investigate recent trends in poverty, and government policies aimed at alleviating it.

We investigate the potential impacts of the government's proposed reforms to the Work Capability Assessment.

New income statistics suggest this parliament is on course to be the worst for living standards on record.

The introduction of universal credit (UC) has been the most significant reform to the workingage benefits system since the reforms following the post-war Beveridge Report. When fully rolled out, around 8 million families - 29% of all working-age families - will be entitled to the benefit. UC is...