The biggest losses experienced are mostly down to a small number of specific choices the government has made about universal credit’s design, says the Institute for FiscalStudies.
The proportion of young people who think it’s important to go to university when they are old enough has fallen steadily over the past six years, according to newIpsos MORI polling of young people published by the Sutton Trust.
A new report from the Law Society says families in poverty are being denied help to fight eviction, tackle severe hosuing direpair and address other life-changing legal issues.
The Sutton Trust is calling on the Chancellor to support a £3.2 billion reform to student funding – means-testing tuition fees and restoring maintenance grants – in this week’s Budget, in a new report that includes detailed projections of their potential costs and benefits.