LIFT platform steering group: data insights from changing caseloads
We held our latest LIFT platform Steering Group where we welcomed many of our clients to our first online steering group.
We held our latest LIFT platform Steering Group where we welcomed many of our clients to our first online steering group.
Read our 3 reasons why the £20 uplift to Universal Credit should be retained, and the related analysis we presented to the APPG on Poverty.
Administering the Covid Winter Grant Scheme has put councils under pressure. LIFT’s new poverty indicators can help identify eligible families.
This year brought fundamental changes to our lives. Hear our policy review of 2020 and our thoughts on a forward look to 2021.
Read a review of our evidence to the Scottish Social Security Committee on the role of Scottish Social Security in Covid-19 recovery.
Our new analysis about free school meals shows how many families struggle to meet the extra costs of food in school holidays, and why. We also present strategies the government could adopt to ensure that no family is in financial crisis as a result of the school holidays, including extending free school meals to all children from households in receipt of Universal Credit.
Falling into debt is perilously easy, getting out is hard. Hear how our Benefit and Budgeting Calculator is helping two of our clients.
COVID-19 has created residents who are newly financially vulnerable and who will be looking to you for help in the near future. Listen back hear Clive Jones talk about the actions Luton Council are taking to protect their residents.
The rise in the claimant count has been most dramatic in councils who had low unemployment levels before the pandemic. We look at what councils can do now.
Deven Ghelani and Terrin Mathew present two new policy modelling approaches to help councils look to post COVID-19 recovery.