Universal credit and its impact on household incomes: the long and the short of it

Publication type

Research Paper

Series Number

BN248

Series

IFS Briefing Notes

Authors

Publication date

April 15, 2019

Summary:

In this research we investigate who wins and loses from universal credit, and by how much. For the first time, we also look at the effects of universal credit on people’s incomes over eight years of their lives, rather than just at a point in time.This lets us look at the impact on those that are persistently, rather than temporarily, low income.

Subjects

Link

https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/14083

Notes

Covered by over 70 media outlets

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