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Benefits

The impact of the global economic downturn on communities and poverty in the UK

Naomi Hossain et al.
4 March 2011

Working-age 'welfare': who gets it, why, and what it costs

Peter Kenway et al.
12 October 2010

Comparing taxes and benefits in 1979, 1997 and 2008

Martin Evans and Lewis Williams
1 September 2009

Growing up in social housing in Britain: A profile of four generations from 1946 to the present day

Ruth Lupton et al
17 June 2009

Should adult benefit for unemployment now be raised?

Peter Kenway
19 April 2009

Ending child poverty in a changing economy

Donald Hirsch
18 February 2009

Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2008

Guy Palmer, Tom MacInnes and Peter Kenway
8 December 2008

Costs and outcomes of an extra care housing scheme in Bradford

Theresia Bäumker, Ann Netten and Robin Darton
17 November 2008

The changing pattern of earnings: employees, migrants and low-paid families

Richard Dickens and Abigail McKnight
29 October 2008

A minimum income standard for Britain: what people think

Jonathan Bradshaw, Sue Middleton, Abigail Davis, et al.
30 June 2008

Problems in the delivery of benefits, tax credits and employment services

Dan Finn, Danielle Mason, Nilufer Rahim and Jo Casebourne
25 June 2008

The impact of benefit and tax uprating on incomes and poverty

Holly Sutherland, Martin Evans, Ruth Hancock, John Hills and Francesca Zantomio
8 April 2008

The impact of tax credits on mothers' employment

Yekaterina Chzhen and Sue Middleton
2 October 2007

Lone parents working under 16 hours a week ('mini-jobs')

Kate Bell, Mike Brewer and David Phillips
2 October 2007

Paying Housing Benefit to claimants

Annie Irvine, Peter A. Kemp and Katharine Nice
10 May 2007

Long-term ill health, poverty and ethnicity

Sarah Salway, Lucinda Platt, Punita Chowbey, Kaveri Harriss and Elizabeth Bayliss
29 April 2007

Response to the Work and Pensions Select Committee Inquiry: Simplifying the UK Benefits System

Joseph Rowntree Foundation
12 April 2007

Voices of people experiencing poverty in Scotland

Mhoraig Green
19 March 2007

Monitoring poverty and social exclusion in Northern Ireland 2006

Peter Kenway, Tom MacInnes, Aveen Kelly and Guy Palmer
17 November 2006

The poverty trade-off: work incentives and income redistribution in Britain

Stuart Adam, Mike Brewer and Andrew Shephard
3 October 2006

Response to the Green Paper, A new deal for welfare: Empowering people to work

Joseph Rowntree Foundation
20 July 2006

Child support

Jonathan Bradshaw
5 July 2006

People in low-paid informal work

Dennis Katungi, Emma Neal and Aaron Barbour
15 June 2006

Child poverty in large families

Jonathan Bradshaw, Naomi Finch, Emese Mayhew, Veli-Matti Ritakallio and Christine Skinner
6 June 2006

The Social Fund: Current role and future direction

Kate Legge, Yvette Hartfree, Bruce Stafford, Monica Magadi, Jacqueline Beckhelling, Line Nyhagen Predelli and Sue Middleton
31 May 2006

Policies towards poverty, inequality and exclusion since 1997

John Hills and Kitty Stewart
12 January 2005

Peer support for people with learning difficulties accessing direct payments

Catherine Bewley and Linsay McCulloch
20 December 2004

Routes out of poverty

Peter Kemp, Jonathan Bradshaw, Paul Dornan, Naomi Finch and Emese Mayhew
24 November 2004

The effect of tax and benefit policy over different 'model lifetimes'

Martin Evans and Jill Eyre
24 November 2004

Has Labour made work pay?

Mike Brewer and Andrew Shephard
17 November 2004

Low pay, household resources and poverty

Jane Millar and Karen Gardiner
17 November 2004

Labour’s welfare reform: Progress to date

Donald Hirsch and Jane Miller
17 November 2004

Reducing the impact of 'green' taxes and charges on low-income households

Paul Ekins and Simon Dresner
26 October 2004

Disabled people's costs of living

Noel Smith, Sue Middleton, Kate Ashton-Brooks, Lynne Cox and Barbara Dobson with Lorna Reith
19 October 2004

Developing direct payments in the North East of England

Frances Hasler with Angela Stewart
7 June 2004

The financial costs and benefits of supporting children since 1975

Stuart Adam and Mike Brewer
14 January 2004

Social exclusion and the onset of disability

Tania Burchardt
19 November 2003

Direct payments for young disabled people

David Abbott
14 May 2003

Tax credits and how to respond to income changes

Peter Whiteford, Michael Mendelson and Jane Millar
8 May 2003

Border tensions: devolution, rents and housing benefit

Steve Wilcox
20 December 2002

Public policy initiatives for older workers

Philip Taylor
18 December 2002

Community Care (Direct Payments) Act 1996 Draft Policy and Practice Guidance

Joseph Rowntree Foundation
12 December 2002

Making choices, taking control

Edited by Deborah Davidson and Laura Luckhurst
8 August 2002

Becoming adult: young disabled people speak

Nicola Hendey and Gillian Pascall
3 July 2002

Geographic patterns of change of benefit claimants

Martin Evans, Michael Noble, Gemma Wright, George Smith, Myfanwy Lloyd and Chris Dibben
21 May 2002

A new settlement for the private rented sector

Private Rented Sector Commission
16 May 2002

Reforming Housing Benefit for private tenants and tax credit recipients

Peter Kemp, Steve Wilcox and David Rhodes
23 April 2002

British social rented housing in a European context

Mark Stephens, Nicky Burns and Lisa MacKay
25 February 2002

The Employment Tax Credit and issues for the future of in-work support

Fran Bennett and Donald Hirsch with contributions by Frank Wilkinson, Mark Pearson, and Stefano Scarpetta
14 November 2001

New Tax Credits Consultation Response

Joseph Rowntree Foundation
30 September 2001

The impact of childhood disability on family life

Barbara Dobson, Sue Middleton and Alan Beardsworth
14 June 2001

The nature of employment for new travellers

Lyn Webster and Jane Millar
8 May 2001

A framework for supported employment

Anne O'Bryan, Ken Simons, Steve Beyer and Bob Grove for the Policy Consortium for Supported Employment
10 November 2000

Reforming children's benefits: international comparisons

Donald Hirsch
31 October 2000

Benefits for children: a four-country study

Ken Battle, Jane Millar, Michael Mendelson, Daniel Meyer and Peter Whiteford
31 October 2000

An overview of the Supporting People Programme

Steve Griffiths
26 October 2000

Thirty per cent fall in private tenants getting Housing Benefit

Steve Wilcox
11 September 2000

Responses from the JRF to the Housing Green Paper: Improving Housing Benefit

Joseph Rowntree Foundation
31 August 2000

Preserved rights income support and residential allowance consultation paper

Joseph Rowntree Foundation
30 April 2000

Balancing acts: Youth, parenting and public policy

Gill Jones and Robert Bell
18 April 2000

Implementation of the Community Care (Direct Payments) Act

Frances Hasler, Jane Cambell and Gerry Zarb
13 April 2000

Housing benefit reform: price incentives

Peter A Kemp
28 January 2000

Does Council Tax Benefit work?

Tom Clark, Chris Giles and John Hall
27 June 1999

People with learning difficulties and their access to direct payments schemes

Andrew Bright and Mark Drake
10 June 1999

European approaches to child maintenance payments

Anne Corden
5 June 1999

Minority ethnic families caring for a severely disabled child

Rampaul Chamba, Waqar Ahmad, Michael Hirst, Dot Lawton and Bryony Beresford
16 May 1999

Response to Employment Zones Consultation

Joseph Rowntree Foundation
30 April 1999

The experiences and attitudes of children from low-income families towards money

Jules Shropshire and Sue Middleton
28 March 1999

Implementing direct payments for people with learning difficulties

Tony Ryan
19 March 1999

Entering work and the tax and benefit system

Paul Gregg, Paul Johnson and Howard Reed
18 March 1999

Response to consultation on supporting families

Joseph Rowntree Foundation
1 March 1999

Ethnic groups and low income distribution

Lucinda Platt and Michael Noble
19 February 1999

Private welfare and public policy

Tania Burchardt, John Hills and Carol Propper
13 January 1999

The incomes of ethnic minorities

Richard Berthoud
1 November 1998

Work, rest and pay: The deal for personal assistance users

Ann Kestenbaum with Helena Cava
29 July 1998

Paying to care: The cost of childhood disability

Barbara Dobson and Sue Middleton
9 July 1998

Home, work and inclusion: the social policy implications of supported living and employment for people with learning disabilities

Ken Simons
4 July 1998

Housing benefit:time for reform

Peter Kemp
30 June 1998

Disparities between market rates and state funding of residential care

William Laing
31 May 1998

Caring to work: accounts of working parents to disabled children

Carolyn Kagan, Suzan Lewis and Patricia Heaton
4 May 1998

Disability benefits

Geoffery Berthoud
30 April 1998

Distribution of income within families receiving benefits

Jackie Goode, Claire Callender and Ruth Lister
31 March 1998

Lone mothers moving in and out of benefit

Michael Noble, George Smith, Sin Yi Cheung
31 March 1998

Income and wealth: the latest evidence

John Hills
1 March 1998

The Working Families Tax Credit: Options and evaluation

Joseph Rowntree Foundation
1 March 1998

Why Special tax credits for low-income working families are being abandonded in Canada

Michael Mandelson
1 January 1998

Social protection: European challenges for the United Kingdom

Donald Hirsch
1 December 1997

Combining work and welfare

Jane Millar, Steven Webb, Martin Kemp
30 September 1997

The viability of furnished tenancies in social housing

Barney Rooney
30 September 1997

Living in bed and breakfast in the 1990s

Mary Carter
31 August 1997

Bridges from benefit to work

Karen Gardiner
31 August 1997

Private lives and public responses: lone parenthood and future policy

Reuben Ford, Jane Millar
31 July 1997

Direct payments for people with learning difficulties

Jean Collins, Andrew Holman, Simone Aspis, Yve Amor
31 July 1997

Expenditure on children in Great Britain

Sue Middleton, Karl Ashworth and Ian Braithwaite
30 June 1997

Local variations in costs

Elaine Kempson, Fran Bennett
30 June 1997

Closing doors: access schemes and the recent housing changes

Julie Rugg
31 May 1997

The integration of taxes and benefits for working families with children

Pamela Meadows
31 May 1997

Bridging the gap? Safety-nets for mortgage borrowers

Janet Ford and Elaine Kempson
30 April 1997

The changing distribution of the social wage

Tom Sefton
30 April 1997

Housing benefit and supported housing

Steve Griffiths
1 March 1997

Private welfare insurance and social security

Tania Burchardt, John Hills
1 February 1997

A new way of measuring relative financial needs

Richard Berthoud and Reuben Ford
1 December 1996

Family obligations in Europe

Professor Jane Millar
1 November 1996

Housing costs, housing benefits and work disincentives

Janet Ford, Elaine Kempson
30 June 1996

Life on a low income

Elaine Kempson
31 May 1996

Lone mothers and work

Jonathan Bradshaw
30 April 1996

The impact of the Child Support Act on lone mothers and their children

Karen Clarke, Gary Craig, Caroline Glendinning
1 March 1996

The cost of children and the welfare state

Richard Dickens, Vanessa Fry, Panos Pashardes
1 December 1995

Older people's attitudes to incomes, taxes and benefits

Janet Askham, Ruth Hancock, Julie Hills
30 September 1995

The relationship between housing benefit and community care

Steve Griffiths
31 May 1995

Affordable childcare and housing: a case study of tenants of a black housing association

Hilary Third
31 May 1995

Private tenants and restrictions in rents for housing benefit

P Kemp, P McLaverty
30 April 1995

Debt and disability

Linda Grant
31 March 1995

Local authorities' use of Independent Living money

Ann Kestenbaum
1 February 1995

The difficulties of setting up home for young single mothers

Suzanne Speak
1 February 1995

Direct payments for personal assistance

Gerry Zarb and Pamela Nadash
1 November 1994

Income maintenance and living standards

Lydia Morris
1 November 1994

Housing support and poverty traps lessons from abroad

1 November 1994

The provision of social security benefits to minority ethnic communities

A team from the University of Leeds
30 September 1994

Difficult times for all housing sectors

Steve Wilcox
31 August 1994

The effects of the 1986 Social Security Act on family incomes

Martin Evans, David Piachaud and Holly Sutherland
31 July 1994

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