Universal Credit: Work & Pensions Committee report
A new report from the Work & Pensions Committee is recommending that if the Chancellor cannot yet commit to making the £20 uplift to Universal…
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Families left in crippling uncertainty over Universal Credit decision
@jrf_uk and @NEUnion response to the House of Commons debate on Universal Credit Earlier this week, the Government has abstained on a motion to keep the…
After a decade of deprivation, we need policies that prioritise recovery for families in poverty
@JRF_uk’s annual report on poverty in the UK A new flagship report finds that families in poverty start 2021 reeling from a triple financial blow:…
Education and skills can unlock people from poverty
Education and skills can unlock people from poverty: we must rise to the challenge of a new lockdown and build the foundations for a just…
Build Back Fairer: The COVID-19 Marmot Review
As the UK emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic #BuildBackBetter has become the mantra. Important, but we need to Build Back Fairer. The levels of social, environmental and…
2m UK families forced to choose between food or heat this Winter
#KeepTheLifeline – Half a million children experiencing extreme hardship across the UK A new flagship study from @JRF_uk reveals an ‘appalling’ rise in destitution in the UK between 2017 and 2019, even…
Measuring the Chancellor’s Spending Review against five key tests
#SR20 – @RishiSunak’s words ring hollow as less is spent on #LevellingUp, say the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (@jrf_uk) The Chancellor used this Spending Review to…
600,000 households with children worried about paying their rent over winter
@JRF_uk say 2.5 million households are worried about paying rent over winter, with 700,000 already in arrears and 350,000 at risk of eviction A large-scale survey…
Government must set out how it will deliver on levelling up
Responding to the publication of “Levelling up: where and how?” by @TheIFS, Mike Hawking, Policy and Partnerships Manager (@jrf_uk) at the independent Joseph Rowntree Foundation, said: “Work…
Over 50 organisations call for Chancellor to make Universal Credit uplift permanent
#KeepTheLifeline – Coalition calls on @RishiSunak to make the £20 a week increase to Universal Credit permanent Over 50 signatories representing leading organisations across the…