Jump to main content

JRF–The Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Secondary Menu

  • About us
  • Our work
  • Media centre
  • UK poverty statistics

Site menu

  • Cities, towns and neighbourhoods
    • Cities
    • Economic development and local growth
    • Inclusive Growth
    • Neighbourhoods
    • Services and local government
  • Housing
    • Affordable housing
    • Home ownership
    • Housing market
    • Housing providers
    • Private rented sector
    • Social Housing
    • Talking about housing
  • Income and benefits
    • Costs
    • Debt
    • Living Standards
    • Living Wage
    • Minimum Income Standards
    • Pay
    • Unemployment
    • Universal Credit
  • People
    • Child Poverty
    • Children
    • Disabled People
    • Ethnicity
    • Low-income voters
  • Society
    • Coronavirus
    • Emerging futures
    • Government
    • Immigration
    • Social and political attitudes
    • Social Exclusion
  • Work
    • Employment
    • Equality
    • In-work poverty
    • Labour Markets
    • Low Pay
    • Skills
  • Cities, towns and neighbourhoods
    • Cities
    • Economic development and local growth
    • Inclusive Growth
    • Neighbourhoods
    • Services and local government
  • Housing
    • Affordable housing
    • Home ownership
    • Housing market
    • Housing providers
    • Private rented sector
    • Social Housing
    • Talking about housing
  • Income and benefits
    • Costs
    • Debt
    • Living Standards
    • Living Wage
    • Minimum Income Standards
    • Pay
    • Unemployment
    • Universal Credit
  • People
    • Child Poverty
    • Children
    • Disabled People
    • Ethnicity
    • Low-income voters
  • Society
    • Coronavirus
    • Emerging futures
    • Government
    • Immigration
    • Social and political attitudes
    • Social Exclusion
  • Work
    • Employment
    • Equality
    • In-work poverty
    • Labour Markets
    • Low Pay
    • Skills
  • About us
  • Our work
  • Media centre
  • UK poverty statistics

You are here

  1. Home ›
  2. Our work ›
  3. Income and benefits

Press releases

Here you'll find all the press releases issued by JRF, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

Filter Content

Filter by geographical area:

  • UK (49) Apply UK filter
  • Scotland (3) Apply Scotland filter
  • Wales (2) Apply Wales filter
  • Northern Ireland (1) Apply Northern Ireland filter

Filter by topic:

  • Income and benefits Remove Income and benefits filter
    • Living standards (25) Apply Living standards filter
    • Universal credit (22) Apply Universal credit filter
    • Costs (18) Apply Costs filter
    • Pay (6) Apply Pay filter
    • Debt (4) Apply Debt filter
    • Living wage (2) Apply Living wage filter
    • Minimum Income Standards (2) Apply Minimum Income Standards filter
    • Unemployment (2) Apply Unemployment filter
  • Work (9) Apply Work filter
  • Housing (8) Apply Housing filter
  • People (2) Apply People filter
  • Economic development and local growth (1) Apply Economic development and local growth filter
  • Inclusive growth (1) Apply Inclusive growth filter
  • Services and local government (1) Apply Services and local government filter
  • Society (1) Apply Society filter

Filter by release date:

  • 2022 (9) Apply 2022 filter
  • 2021 (7) Apply 2021 filter
  • 2020 (7) Apply 2020 filter
  • 2019 (7) Apply 2019 filter
  • 2018 (15) Apply 2018 filter
  • 2017 (16) Apply 2017 filter
Reset Filters

Our use of cookies

We use necessary cookies to make our site work. We'd also like to set tracking, social sharing and analytics cookies to improve the experience of our site. These are completely optional and we won't collect them unless you give us your consent.

To find out more please read our cookies policy.

Necessary Cookies

Necessary cookies are strictly necessary for our website to function properly across areas such as accessibility security and use all of our features. These cookies can be disabled in your website browser settings but may impact your website experience.

Social Sharing Cookies

Social sharing cookies allow you to share content from our website on your social media platforms and email.

Social sharing cookies

Tracking Cookies

Tracking cookies track and identify visitors as a Dotdigital contact whilst they browse our site. This data is used for better segmenting and targeting of Dotdigital contacts.

Tracking cookies

Analytics Cookies

Analytics cookies enable us to use Google Analytics and Monsido to help us improve our website by collecting data on how you use it. The data we collect remains strictly anonymous. Google use cookies for ads personalisation.

Analytics cookies

Couple supermarket shopping
Political inaction means inflation is leaving people in desperate situations

Political inaction means inflation is leaving people in desperate situations

13th Apr 2022
British coins
Main out-of-work benefit sees its biggest drop in value in fifty years

Main out-of-work benefit sees its biggest drop in value in fifty years

10th Apr 2022
Chancellor must strengthen measures to help with the cost of living

Chancellor must strengthen measures to help with the cost of living

1st Apr 2022
Chancellor has abandoned many to the threat of destitution, not economic security - JRF responds to Spring Statement

Chancellor has abandoned many to the threat of destitution, not economic security - JRF responds to Spring Statement

23rd Mar 2022
Mother working on laptop with baby on knee
New analysis shows Chancellor must act to avoid devastating damage to living standards of poorest families

New analysis shows Chancellor must act to avoid devastating damage to living standards of poorest families

18th Mar 2022
Stressed woman with child
400,000 people could be pulled into poverty by real-terms cut to benefits in April

400,000 people could be pulled into poverty by real-terms cut to benefits in April

24th Feb 2022
Woman in wheelchair
JRF responds to legacy benefits High Court ruling

JRF responds to legacy benefits High Court ruling

18th Feb 2022
couple worrying over bills
New measures won't protect poorest families from new energy price cap

New measures won't protect poorest families from new energy price cap

3rd Feb 2022
Mother with daughter
Cold comfort for those struggling most with the cost of living

Cold comfort for those struggling most with the cost of living

3rd Feb 2022
Lone parent
JRF responds to extension of Scottish Child Payment

JRF responds to extension of Scottish Child Payment

29th Nov 2021
Family shopping
Large-scale study reveals scale of debt crisis among low-income households

Large-scale study reveals scale of debt crisis among low-income households

21st Oct 2021
Oldham town
JRF responds to PM's levelling up speech

JRF responds to PM's levelling up speech

15th Jul 2021
Family shopping
Planned cuts to Universal Credit will hit incomes of millions of households unable to afford a minimum living standard

Planned cuts to Universal Credit will hit incomes of millions of households unable to afford a minimum living standard

14th Jul 2021
Newspapers
JRF hails High Court bid to end discrimination against legacy benefit claimants

JRF hails High Court bid to end discrimination against legacy benefit claimants

29th Apr 2021
Glasgow city centre
JRF responds to Scotland’s latest poverty statistics

JRF responds to Scotland’s latest poverty statistics

25th Mar 2021
Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveils his Spring 2021 Budget in Downing Street
JRF responds to the Chancellor's Spring 2021 Budget

JRF responds to the Chancellor's Spring 2021 Budget

3rd Mar 2021
  • Load more

Sign up to our newsletter

Get the latest research, partner stories, events and job opportunities sent to your inbox.

Subscribe
News alert icon

A unique organisation

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is an independent social change organisation working to solve UK poverty. Uniquely, we also run a housing association and care provider, the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust.

About us
Social scene in Clementhorpe Court

Our Work

  • Our work
  • Events
  • Reports
  • Blog
  • News
  • Funding
  • Social investment

About us

  • About us
  • Our heritage
  • Our people
  • Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust
  • Careers
  • Internships
  • Contact us

Legal

  • Legal
  • Privacy notice
  • Cookies
  • Accessibility
  • Annual reports and accounts
  • Website acceptable use policy
  • Website terms and conditions

Contact us

Contact us
The Homestead
40 Water End
York
YO30 6WP
Tel:01904 629 241

Social menu

  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • YouTube
  • Facebook
  • RSS
  • Medium

Copyright Joseph Rowntree Foundation 2022. A company limited by guarantee and a registered charity.
Company Number: 12132713
Charity Number (Scotland): SC049712
Charity Number (England and Wales): 1184957