The share of workers in low pay failed to fall the first time in 15 years, and in fact rose slightly on last year, the Resolution Foundation said today (Thursday) in response to the ONS Annual Survey ...

The average shortfall between Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates and the 30 th percentile rent level has now reached an all-time high of 23.3 per cent – equivalent to a £170 a month ‘affordability ...

The UK’s relatively strong economic performance this year may finally be starting to feed through into the labour market, with payrolled employment and private sector wage strengthening over the ...

This briefing note sets out the method through which the real Living Wage rates (a voluntary hourly pay rate based on what families need to get by) in London and the rest of the UK are calculated by ...

One-in-six (16 per cent) working-age PIP recipients report no additional costs linked to their disability, suggesting that the current system is failing to effectively match support to those it was ...

Disability support and especially Personal Independence Payments (PIP) is failing on two grounds – spiralling costs are putting pressure on the public finances and those that need the benefit have ...

This briefing note takes stock of five years of successive cost of living crises, examining how the surge in prices since 2021 has hit household incomes, finances and living standards across the ...

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The past five years of a near-continuous cost of living crisis have caused the real incomes of typical working-age households to fall rather than grow, leaving them £2,900 (7.9 per cent) worse off ...

The UK’s post-financial crisis productivity slowdown has been a defining feature of our economic landscape.[1] But changes in how the Office for National Statistics (ONS) calculates the average hours ...