Universal Credit· Household debt· Welfare The debts that divide us Flash findings from a survey of families claiming Universal Credit 7 February 2021 by Mike Brewer and Karl Handscomb …the pace of the living standards recovery – including whether we can move a post-Brexit and post-Covid UK onto a path of faster productivity growth – but its shape, including,… READ MORE
Household debt The Bank has increased borrowing costs, but is personal debt bubbling over? 5 November 2017 by Matthew Whittaker …with sizeable cuts to working-age welfare due over the coming years and the uncertainty of Brexit still looming, the risk of such circumstantial changes is perhaps heightened. At the macro… READ MORE
Household debt· Prices & consumption Consumer borrowing is up. But will it last, and should we be concerned? 12 January 2017 by Matthew Whittaker …into one quarter of data, the direction of travel is entirely opposite to the one predicted by many economists ahead of the vote for Brexit. Rather than saving more as… READ MORE
