Sheena is the Senior Policy Adviser in JRF's Northern Ireland team. Since 2020, she has worked in senior policy and advocacy roles within the Children’s Sector in NI, including Action for Children and ...

Discussion ahead of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) statement on 26 March has focused on whether the Chancellor will meet her fiscal rule, and the extent to which near unprecedented cuts ...

Responding to the Chancellor’s Spring Statement and the publication of the government’s impact assessment for their planned cuts to disability benefits, Paul Kissack, Chief Executive of the Joseph ...

This new analysis shows the level of proposed cuts for some example families, and how multiple cuts interact with one other. There are some welcome changes with people in receipt of benefits having a ...

New modelling from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation shows that living standards are set to fall across the rest of the decade, with the average family £750 worse off in real terms by April 2029 compared ...

Responding to the Government's green paper on disability and sickness benefits and the Secretary for Work and Pensions' speech, JRF Chief Executive Paul Kissack said: "No truly moral choice would ...

Responding to today's Bank of England decision to keep the interest rate at 4.5%, JRF Senior Economist Rachelle Earwaker said: “Today’s announcement that the interest rate remains unchanged represents ...

We have a bold mission: to support and speed up the transition to a more equitable and just future, free from poverty, where people and planet can flourish. And to further that mission we have an ...

Community energy projects have existed for many years, but how do they fit in with the Government’s commitment to clean power by 2030 and can community energy really work for low-income households?

More pounds in people’s pockets? In her Budget speech in October 2024, Rachel Reeves said she wanted ‘more pounds in people’s pockets’ and ‘to improve living standards’. But when we compare average ...

These rumoured cuts would be the largest in social security for a decade, since George Osborne’s 2015 Budget. They'd be 3 times the size of the (subsequently cancelled) cuts Iain Duncan Smith resigned ...

Assessing the prospects for living standards is an important part of every fiscal event, but will be increasingly important going forward, given the Prime Minister’s commitment to ‘higher living ...