Sunday 11th October * Around 870,066 Universal Credit claimants in their twenties were not in work, equivalent to 67.5 per ...

Saturday, 4th October *’ Alliance releases a comprehensive map of benefits spending across England and Wales, across every ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE *’ Alliance launches an online tool that allows taxpayers to look up how much they pay for welfare ...

For immediate release Responding to Andy Burnham’s speech at Labour party conference, John O’Connell, chief executive of the ...

Britain’s public finances are under growing strain, with debt close to twice the level seen during the 1976 fiscal crisis, a heavier interest burden, weaker productivity growth and mounting pressure ...

50 years on from the humiliation of our 1976 IMF bail-out loan, our analysis shows we’re now in an even worse fiscal mess. So what does the IMF think we should do to dig ourselves out this time? We ...

7.3 million working age adults in England and Wales claiming universal credit as of May 2026, including 3.3 million under the age of 40. At least 30 per cent of the working age population in 15 ...

Responding to John Healey’s speech at Labour party conference, John O’Connell, chief executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said “The chancellor offered next to nothing to defuse the benefits bomb ...

Responding to the news that more than half of Labour MPs have electoral majorities smaller than the number of disability benefits claimants in their constituency, John O’Connell, chief executive of ...

As we head into what is likely to be Labour’s third consecutive tax-raising budget, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has just significantly revised up its estimate of historic productivity ...

Universal credit (UC) is the main benefit available to those on low incomes. It comprises a standard allowance as well as several other components such as a child element, health element and housing ...

There’s not a whole lot the TaxPayers’ Alliance and Unite agree on. While the TPA priorises taxpayers, campaigning for fairness for those picking up the tab, the latter spends most of its time ...