Institute for Fiscal Studies – ‘Universal Credit: A Preliminary Analysis’
30 January 2013
This Briefing Note analyses Universal Credit as set out in the government’s White Paper, ‘Universal Credit:Welfare that Works’.
This Briefing Note analyses Universal Credit as set out in the government’s White Paper, ‘Universal Credit:Welfare that Works’.
The aim of this briefing is to provide activists, officers and students’ unions with knowledge on how government reforms and cuts are impacting on women.
In February 2012, Trust for London published a report considering the evidence on cuts in budgets and services to prevent violence against women and girls.
In 2009, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation published research showing what effect current policies will have on child poverty by 2010 and 2020.
This paper provides a gender analysis of the potential impact of the welfare reform proposals on women.