Universal credit review: challenges and options for reform

What is the effect of the two-child limit on children’s school readiness?

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

Benefits and tax credits

IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities

Reforms, roll-outs and freezes in the tax and benefit system

Chapter in the IFS Green Budget: October 2022

The temporary benefit increases beyond 2020–21

Chapter in the IFS Green Budget: October 2020

Benefit changes set to take effect during the next parliament

Universal credit and its impact on household incomes: the long and the short of it

Free school meals under universal credit

Options for reforming personal independence payment

Chapter in the IFS Green Budget: October 2026

Do disability benefit claims rise when other benefits are cut?

The government’s proposed reforms to health-related benefits: incomes, insurance and incentives

The role of changing health in rising health-related benefit claims

Health-related benefit claims post-pandemic: UK trends and global context

Response to consultation ‘Modernising Support: The Health and Disability Green Paper’

Recent trends in and the outlook for health-related benefits

The effects of reforms to the Work Capability Assessment for incapacity benefits

Inequalities in disability

IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities

The number of new disability benefit claimants has doubled in a year

A deepening freeze: more adults than ever are paying higher-rate tax

The policy menu for school lunches: options and trade-offs in expanding free school meals in England

Jeremy Hunt’s tax and spending policies: what would they cost and who would benefit?

Boris Johnson’s tax policies: what would they cost and who would benefit?

Options for raising taxes

Chapter in the IFS Green Budget: October 2018

Public spending on children in England: 2000 to 2020

A survey of the UK tax system

Why has the NEET rate risen? Understanding trends and drivers using administrative data

Unemployment, benefits and household spending: new evidence from UK bank account data

Long COVID and the labour market

The impact of the National Living Wage on wages, employment and household incomes

The distributional impact of tax and benefit reforms since 2010

The distributional impact of personal tax and benefit reforms, 2010 to 2019

The effect of taxes and benefits on UK inequality

The impact of tax and benefit reforms on household incomes

Public policy and inequalities: lessons for policymakers from the IFS Deaton Review

Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2024

Seven key facts about UK living standards

Living standards since the last election

Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2023

Poverty

Housing quality and affordability for lower-income households

The cost of living crisis: a pre-Budget briefing

Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2022

Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2021

Reducing in-work poverty: the role of minimum wages and benefits

Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2019

Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2018

Five years of recovery in living standards: middle incomes rise by more than for higher or lower income households

Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2017–18 to 2021–22

Incomes and inequality: the last decade and the next parliament

Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2016–17 to 2021–22

The geographic impact of the pandemic on household spending

Spending and saving during the COVID-19 crisis: evidence from bank account data

Income protection policy during COVID-19: evidence from bank account data

The effects of coronavirus on household finances and financial distress

Income protection for the self-employed and employees during the coronavirus crisis

Support for the self-employed during the coronavirus pandemic

The IFS Scottish Budget Report – 2024–25

Scottish Budget: Tax and spending in 2024–25

Scottish Budget: The medium-term outlook and choices

Employment, earnings and incomes in Scotland

Scottish Budget 2023–24: further analysis

Analysis of Scottish tax and benefit reforms

Child poverty taskforce

Education and Work and Pensions Select Committees, May 2025

Reforms to health-related benefits

Equality and Human Rights Commission, May 2025

Inactivity and health-related benefits

House of Lords Economic Affairs Select Committee, October 2024

The effectiveness of sanctions

Work and Pensions Select Committee, May 2023

Long COVID and the labour market

Scottish Parliament COVID-19 Recovery Committee, November 2022

The impact of the cost of living crisis on workers, consumers and business

Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Select Committee, September 2022

Covid-19 and social security

Scottish Parliament Social Security Committee, November 2020

The economics of Universal Credit

House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee, February 2020

Natural migration in Universal Credit

Work and Pensions Select Committee, February 2019

The two child limit

Work and Pensions Select Committee, December 2018

Child Poverty Expert Analytical Panel

Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Child Poverty Unit