Household debt· Housing A loan scheme for renters could stop tenants from being made homeless 18 February 2021 by Lindsay Judge …past ten months will exacerbate this. Family incomes will also be strained further by the planned end of both furlough and the temporary boost to Universal Credit in the spring,… READ MORE
Covid-19· Housing Getting ahead on falling behind Tackling the UK’s building arrears crisis 16 February 2021 by Lindsay Judge …via the furlough scheme and the £20 per week uplift to UC), it is clear that financial strain has grown as the pandemic has worn on. Using new data from… READ MORE
Covid-19 Lockdown lessons What 2020 has to teach us about the difficult weeks ahead 5 January 2021 by Torsten Bell and Lindsay Judge …will certainly surpass the 4 million we estimate were furloughed during November’s lockdown. Indeed more furloughing is desirable because we should be getting on with using the Job Retention Scheme… READ MORE
Covid-19· Housing Coping with housing costs, six months on… New findings from the Resolution Foundation's Covid-19 study - wave two 30 October 2020 by Lindsay Judge and Cara Pacitti …renters reported being on furlough in early September, compared to 6 per cent of mortgagors. This leaves them in a potentially precarious position with the end of the original Job… READ MORE
Covid-19· Economy and public finances The Winter (Economy Plan) is coming Chancellor ramps economic support back up, but avoidable design flaws will limit its success in stemming the Autumn rise in unemployment 25 September 2020 by Torsten Bell and Mike Brewer and Adam Corlett and Karl Handscomb and Lindsay Judge and James Smith and Daniel Tomlinson …existing partial furlough policy. Where firms choose to use it, this will provide very significant income protection for workers that employers bring back for more than a third, but less… READ MORE
