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Examines whether the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) system is targeting intended recipients, assessing who receives awards and potential gaps or misallocations in coverage and access for disabled claimants, ahead of forthcoming policy decisions.
A Centre for Social Justice inquiry maps about 3,000 local areas where over half of working‑age adults receive benefits, and reports that almost 900,000 working‑age people are on benefits, highlighting Britain’s scale of worklessness.
Almost two million people classed as foreign nationals are reported to be receiving UK benefits or the state pension, according to a new inquiry; the release presents this figure as a landmark finding but provides few methodological details in the blurb.
NIESR argues ending the state pension ‘triple lock’ is a welcome move but should be implemented sooner rather than later. The triple lock, introduced in 2011, raises pensions by CPI inflation, average earnings, or 2.5%—whichever is highest.
Finds that introducing rent controls would slow private rent growth and therefore reduce the fiscal cost of uprating Local Housing Allowance to reflect market rents, cutting the bill for restoring the link between LHA and local rents.
Argues that Universal Credit taper plus income tax and National Insurance meant a claimant lost 55p of every extra £1 earned, recounting being advised to seek cash-in-hand work and describing financial distress while unemployed.
Sets out options for redesigning UK incapacity benefits, examining who receives support, how eligibility and assessment operate, and proposing changes to improve work incentives, access and support for disabled and long-term sick claimants.
Institute for Government analysis reveals more than 52,000 people are claiming benefits for non-specific back pain, highlighting the scale of long-term disability claims linked to musculoskeletal conditions and implications for health and welfare policy.
Critiques Kemi Badenoch’s proposal to replace cash benefits for the long-term unemployed with prepaid ‘back-to-work’ cards that block purchases of alcohol, cigarettes and gambling, arguing such controls would create a black market and harm recipients.