Life costs more if you’re disabled. This report by Scope uses data from the Family Resources Survey to calculate the extra costs faced by disabled households. We call this the ‘Disability Price Tag’.
For this report, 31 members of disabled households took part in interviews. They told how managing household finances alongside extra costs impacted them and their families’ lives.
Millions of vulnerable people to receive help this winter as the Work and Pensions Secretary extends the Household Support Fund
The interaction between Universal Credit and additional means-tested help for working claimants. Drawing on the findings from our wider qualitative longitudinal research study exploring the experience of working claimants on Universal Credit (UC), 1 we explore the interaction between UC, earnings, ‘passported’ benefits and other means-tested help.
Our latest report on Local Welfare Assistance and the Household Support Fund reveals that millions of people will be unable to access crisis support from their local council if the Household Support Fund, (HSF), ends on September 30th, 2024.
Household debt: Data on the latest household debt statistics, including net lending, mortgage interest rates and insolvencies.
Energy affordability no longer dominates headlines as it did when prices were at their peak, and for some households the acute phase of the energy crisis has passed. But millions of households are still struggling, and many are burdened with unsustainable energy debts built up over recent years.
Being a carer can have a significant impact on someone’s ability to work, so what did the most recent NHS Staff Survey reveal about how many NHS staff are also carers? Rachel Hutchings explores the findings.
The National Audit Office (NAO) scrutinises public spending for Parliament and is independent of government and the civil service. We help Parliament hold government to account and we use our insights to help people who manage and govern public bodies improve public services.
Universal Credit aims to support benefit claimants to find work and to progress in work.
This study focuses on some of the lowest earning claimants on Universal Credit who are placed in the Intensive Work Search (IWS) regime. Claimants in the IWS regime are required to undertake activity to search for work, or more or better paid work.
This page provides data on housing supply for district-level and unitary local authorities in England. Data is available on housing stock broken down by tenure, net supply of new housing, and supply of affordable housing.