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Analysis and action on living standards
Our Living Standards Audit, updated for 2018, estimates how household incomes have performed over the last year, and examines under-reporting of benefit incomes in official survey data,
This report contains the Commission’s conclusions, drawing on a deep and wide-ranging examination of the experiences and prospects of different generations in Britain.
This year’s report – the eighth edition of Low Pay Britain – documents the headline trends shaping the low-paid end of the labour market today and highlights the new challenges policymakers should be addressing.
A look beyond the headline data on the forces behind current developments in pay, how the fruits are shared, and the short- and longer-term drivers of earnings growth.
Good to see @heidiallen75 discuss the next stage of #UniversalCredit and how major changes to the current plans are needed to make it truly a 'managed' process and ensure people don't fall into hardship @resfoundation Retweeted by ResolutionFoundation
Tess Lanning from @LivingWageUK: “Employers shpuld adopt a four week notice period for shifts - with minimum contracts of at least 16 hours. The big question is, how can we get companies to move towards this - and take on risks themselves, rather than pass to employee?”
Positive to hear Heidi Allen MP say @resfoundation she's had conversations with Esther McVey about how UC doesn't work for self-employed, particularly around Minimum Income Floor. Hope we'll see changes at Budget Retweeted by ResolutionFoundation
Question: would a basic citizens' income help people like working single mothers, who are often forced to dip in and out of work? RF's @dan_tomlinson_ says studies show people value a stable income - but improving UC, and making it easier for people to work, would also help
'I think it's time for the government to end the benefits freeze,' says @heidiallen75, in response to a question from the floor about how the lowest-paid in society are coping with earnings volatility and low pay.
Universal Credit was not built for self-employed people - something which Esther McVey understands, says @heidiallen75. So big changes are needed. But we also need to understand how social security is often masking the real underlying problem - low pay
.@heidiallen75 starts by saying that the gig economy is here to stay - flexibility is good, but volatility is bad. There need to be proper safeguards against the latter
