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This commentary reviews the government’s tax and benefit reforms affecting pensioners to date, and examines the evidence from the latest official low income figures on the government’s record on pensioner poverty so far.

    Authors

    Alissa Goodman
    Alissa Goodman

    Research Fellow University College London

    Alissa is an IFS Research Fellow and a Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Longitudinal Studies at the UCL Institute of Education.

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    Michal Myck

    Andrew Shephard
    Andrew Shephard

    Research Associate University of Pennsylvania

    Andrew is a Research Associate at the IFS and an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania.

    Report details

    DOI
    10.1920/co.ifs.2003.0093
    ISBN
    978-1-903274-30-9
    Publisher
    IFS

    Suggested citation

    A, Goodman and M, Myck and A, Shephard. (2003). Sharing in the nation’s prosperity? Pensioner poverty in Britain. London: IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/sharing-nations-prosperity-pensioner-poverty-britain (accessed: 15 January 2025).

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