Welfare benefits and tax credits

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Election Special: Your questions answered

podcast

In the final run up to the election, we answer your questions about everything from borrowing to AI to the part that luck plays in the economy.

27 June 2024

What is the two-child limit in benefits?

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IFS Associate Director Tom Waters explains.

27 June 2024

Election Special: The big issues politicians haven't spoken about

podcast

What are the manifestos missing? What are the big challenges facing us? And what information should voters be aware of as they head to the polls?

25 June 2024

Policy analysis

What are the parties’ plans for benefits and taxes?

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Use our simple interactive tool to see how the parties’ plans for benefits and taxes would impact household incomes over the next five years.

24 June 2024

How would the parties’ tax and spending plans affect Scotland and Wales?

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This ‘explainer’ looks at how the parties’ proposals would affect Scotland and Wales, covering tax, spending, public finances and the constitution.

28 June 2024

How should we interpret parties’ public spending pledges this election?

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Parties have pledged lots of ‘fully costed’ spending policies but these tell us little about the actual funding each public service might receive.

23 June 2024

Academic research

Income inequality in Ireland, 1987–2019

journal article

This paper highlights an aspect of the Irish experience that does stand out as quite remarkable.

28 June 2024

Components of the evolution of income inequality in Sweden, 1990–2021

journal article

This paper documents how the inequality of household equivalent disposable income has changed in Sweden over the period 1990–2021.

28 June 2024

The intergenerational elasticity of earnings: Exploring the mechanisms

working paper

We use data covering a single cohort’s first 55 years of life to explain the differences in the intergenerational elasticity of earnings.

3 June 2024