
A decade of austerity, the freezing of benefit levels and the introduction of universal credit have helped take benefit payments to their lowest level since 1948, finds a new report from the IPPR (Institute for Public Policy Research), ‘Social (in)security: reforming the UK’s safety net’.
The welfare reforms of 2015 (the benefit cap, two-child limit and benefits freeze) combined with some of the most severe cuts the welfare system has seen, has resulted in poverty now growing again, particula...
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