Sunday 11th October * Around 870,066 Universal Credit claimants in their twenties were not in work, equivalent to 67.5 per ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE *’ Alliance launches an online tool that allows taxpayers to look up how much they pay for welfare ...
Saturday, 4th October *’ Alliance releases a comprehensive map of benefits spending across England and Wales, across every ...
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 ...
For immediate release Responding to Andy Burnham’s speech at Labour party conference, John O’Connell, chief executive of the ...
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 ...
As the chancellor addresses the Labour conference, the fiscal backdrop is worse than in 1976, according to a new report by former Treasury and City economist Mike Denham. 50 years ago, Britain ...
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 ...
Britain has a serious fiscal problem. Public spending has already grown beyond the economy’s sustainable funding capacity, and long-term projections from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) and ...
The number of people receiving a mobility element for Personal Independence Payments (PIP) reached 3.23 million in April 2026, around four fifths of all PIP claimants. The mobility element is paid at ...
The mobility component of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is meant to support those who have difficulty getting around. A person need not have a physical disability to qualify, with mental health ...
52,210 PIP claimants had non-specific back pain recorded as their main disabling condition in April 2026, an increase of 58.9 per cent since 2021. All ten constituencies with the highest rates were in ...