JRF is calling on the Government to place a strategy for household economic security at the heart of its strategy for growth.

If the Government wants to end emergency food parcels and tackle child poverty and homelessness, re-linking benefits to costs ...

New research is filling the evidence gap around why people are unpaid carers, and building understanding of their essential role alongside paid care services. These are the words of unpaid carers.

Martyn leads the Design and Production team at JRF, guiding the design, editorial, and production of digital content. He ensures all content is clear, consistent, and aligned with our mission. Since ...

Understanding poverty now is important for policy. And when it comes to households’ living standards, no aggregate, reliable, real-time data is available. Until now. JRF has worked with Policy in ...

The latest webinar in our Talking about Homes series explores how to effectively frame numbers and statistics, and how to talk about the economy and our homes ...

Debt deductions: Amounts deducted to repay debts, mostly to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) but also to other government entities or third-party creditors. For example, ‘advance payment’ ...

A key annual event in the Challenge Poverty Week calendar is the launch of JRF's Poverty in Scotland report. This year’s report gives a snapshot of poverty rates and then looks in detail at how the ...

The Chancellor's new age of economic insecurity isn't new for millions of people struggling with hunger and hardship. The Budget must have a plan for hardship. The Government has made a hugely welcome ...

Everyone should have someone or somewhere to turn to in a crisis. But high levels of hardship in the UK leave people facing personal crises every day – being unable to afford to feed their family, ...