Disability Price Tag 2024

Life costs more if you’re disabled. This report by Scope uses data from the Family [...]

Government support extended to help struggling households with bills and essential costs over winter

Millions of vulnerable people to receive help this winter as the Work and Pensions Secretary [...]

Cliff edges and precipitous inclines

The interaction between Universal Credit and additional means-tested help for working claimants. Drawing on the [...]

Universal Credit and earnings progression: evidence from a regression discontinuity design

Universal Credit aims to support benefit claimants to find work and to progress in work. This [...]

People claiming unemployment benefits by constituency

There were 1.80 million claimants in July 2024, which was 135,000 more than the month [...]

Carer’s Allowance overpayments

The scandal of overpayments shocked many people this spring when it was widely reported in the [...]

After the WCA: Competing visions of disability and welfare

After several near misses, the era of the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) may be coming [...]

An ‘interface first’ bureaucracy: Interface design, universal credit and the digital welfare state

The front-line of the welfare state is increasingly not a letter, phone call or face-to-face [...]

Universal credit: incomes, incentives and the remaining roll-out

What has been the impact of universal credit on incomes and work incentives? What challenges [...]

Old age tendencies – the impact of tax and benefit changes on intergenerational fairness ahead of the 2024 general election

In this Spotlight we look at the impact of spending, tax and benefit decisions taken [...]