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How to reduce child poverty: compare the policy options
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Use these charts to compare policies for reducing child poverty and to examine how child poverty rates have changed over time across different groups.
3 October 2024
The big challenges facing the benefits system
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Can the rising costs of benefits be managed and what changes could improve the system?
10 September 2024
It’s time to be honest about the funding of social care
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The fury about ending the winter fuel allowance is a diversion from a much important issue: our failing social care system.
16 September 2024
Policy analysis
IFS Green Budget 2024
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All the analysis so far from our IFS Green Budget 2024, funded by the Nuffield Foundation and in partnership with Citi.
10 October 2024
Fiscal rules and investment in the upcoming Budget
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The government is reportedly considering a change to the debt rule to allow for more borrowing for investment. We consider some of the options.
27 September 2024
Next steps for private pension saving for employees and the self-employed
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16 September 2024 at 10:30
At this in-person event in Westminster, IFS researchers presented new findings from the Pensions Review.
Academic research
Very weak income growth for poor pensioners has meant rising pensioner poverty since 2011
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This report examines the key trends in pensioner incomes and poverty over the past two decades.
19 July 2024
Unfunded mandates and taxation
journal article
In 2006, the Chinese central government increased civil servant salaries and pensions and used either unfunded and funded mandates in different areas.
14 March 2024
The menopause "penalty"
working paper
We estimate the effect of menopause diagnosis on employment and earnings, reliance on social safety net programs, and demand for medical care.
18 March 2024