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The Autumn Statement explained
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We analyse the Chancellor's 2023 Autumn Statement.
24 November 2023
The Autumn Statement 2023 explained in 90 seconds
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Paul Johnson responds to Jeremy Hunt's 2023 Autumn Statement.
22 November 2023
Cake or biscuit? The UK's byzantine VAT system explained
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This week, we dive into the oddities of the VAT system.
16 November 2023
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Education spending: an engine for levelling-up?
event 11 December 2023
The launch of the 2023 IFS Annual Report on Education Spending in England, funded by the Nuffield Foundation.
Social mobility and wealth
conference 12 December 2023
At this in-person event, IFS researchers will share findings from ESRC-funded research on social mobility and its drivers.
Where next for the state pension?
event 13 December 2023
At this online event, IFS researchers will present findings from a major new report on the future of the state pension in the UK.
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Sam Ray-Chaudhuri

Research Economist

Sam joined the IFS in 2022 and works as a research economist in the Income, Work and Welfare sector. His current research areas include young people’s labour market outcomes in light of the COVID pandemic as well as the UK benefits system.

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MPhil (Distinction) Economics, University of Cambridge, 2022

BA (1st Class) Economics, University of Cambridge, 2021

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Autumn Statement 2023: IFS analysis

Event 23 November 2023 at 10:30 via Slido and YouTube

IFS researchers presented their analysis of the Chancellor's announcements the day after the Autumn Statement.

Autumn Statement 2023 response

Comment

Higher inflation has boosted tax revenues. Rather than compensate public services, or bank the spoils, the Chancellor decided to cut taxes.

22 November 2023

Using October rather than September inflation to uprate working-age benefits represents a £3 billion cut

Comment

Using October rather than September inflation to uprate benefits in April 2024 would be a permanent £3 billion cut to the size of the benefits system.

16 November 2023

Revaluation and reform of Welsh council tax should proceed without delay

Comment

We analyse the impact of the possible approaches to council tax reform set out in the Welsh Government’s consultation on ‘A fairer council tax’.

14 November 2023

Assessing the Welsh Government’s consultation on reforms to council tax

Report

We analyse the impact of the possible approaches to council tax reform set out in the Welsh Government’s consultation on ‘A fairer council tax’.

14 November 2023

Incapacity benefits changes strengthen work incentives for over a million, but hundreds of thousands left worse off

Press Release

520,000 individuals would see their benefit entitlements fall under the reform, typically by £390 per month.

26 October 2023

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

Report

We investigate the potential impacts of the government’s proposed reforms to the Work Capability Assessment.

26 October 2023

IFS responds to changes to DWP work capability assessments

Comment

We respond to proposed changes by the government to reform the work capability assessment used to determine entitlement to incapacity benefits.

5 September 2023

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Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2023

Event 13 July 2023 at 11:00 via Slido and Youtube

This online event presented the key findings from our latest flagship annual report on living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK.

Lump-sum cost of living payments poorly designed to alleviate deprivation

Press Release

The government has introduced a series of ‘cost of living payments’.

13 July 2023

Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2023

Presentation

This online event presented the key findings from our latest flagship annual report on living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK.

13 July 2023

Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2023

Report

We investigate how living standards have changed for different groups in the UK, with a particular focus on the cost of living payments and housing.

13 July 2023

Poverty

Report

We investigate recent trends in poverty, and government policies aimed at alleviating it.

13 July 2023

Recent changes to universal credit have much smaller effect on poverty than £20 uplift

Comment

Absolute poverty fell from 17.9% to 16.8% in the first year of the pandemic, due to rising benefit receipts.

9 July 2023

Nearly half of older adults who left the workforce in 2020–21 ended up in relative poverty

Press Release

New IFS research, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, shows that 48% of 50- to 70-year-olds who had recently left the workforce in 2020–21 ended

7 July 2023

Living standards and inequality

Report

We examine recent trends in households’ living standards, with a particular focus on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020–21 and 2021–22.

7 July 2023

Number of new disability benefit claims remains high, but today’s data show tentative signs of easing

Press Release

In the years since the pandemic, there has been a large and sustained rise in the number of adults being newly awarded working-age disability benefits each month.

13 June 2023