Living standards are set to return to the depths experienced during the cost-of-living crisis by the end of this parliament, ...

JRF is calling on the Government to place a strategy for household economic security at the heart of its strategy for growth.

“Today’s actions alone won’t be enough to fix the foundations for millions who struggle winter after winter in devastating hardship. The Chancellor is right that change must be felt. The people who ...

If the Government wants to end emergency food parcels and tackle child poverty and homelessness, re-linking benefits to costs ...

Debt deductions: Amounts deducted to repay debts, mostly to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) but also to other government entities or third-party creditors. For example, ‘advance payment’ ...

In response to the Chancellor of the Exchequer's speech at Labour party conference, Alfie Stirling, Director and Chief Economist of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, said: “Families who have been ...

New research is filling the evidence gap around why people are unpaid carers, and building understanding of their essential role alongside paid care services. These are the words of unpaid carers.

Everyone should have someone or somewhere to turn to in a crisis. But high levels of hardship in the UK leave people facing personal crises every day – being unable to afford to feed their family, ...