No 40: How the social protection system can fail the self-employed
by Kevin Caraher and Enrico Reuter Rachel Mantell, a self-employed management consult, earns more than £100,000 per year, can afford to spend £6,000 on holidays, […]
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No 24: Social insecurity: a new consensus is needed to return security to the system
by Sarah Batty ‘Putting the security back into Social Security’ was the title of a series of national solution-focused workshops held in 2017 in which […]
No 15: Universal Credit, means-testing and social security
by Jane Millar Fifty years ago, in 1967, means-testing was just a small part of our social security system. Supplementary Benefit had been introduced in […]
No 8: Universal Credit: A benefits system to increase debt
by Steve Iafrati Narratives explaining poverty as caused by personal failings and poor decisions are nothing new. The characterisation of the likeable but foolish Mr […]
No 3: Why the two-child policy is the worst social security policy ever
by Jonathan Bradshaw What is the worst social security policy ever? There are many competitors for this accolade in our history — less eligibility in […]