This government says they're cutting benefits to encourage people to work. But the DWP & OBR between them haven't yet been able to forecast any impact on employment outcomes. They're causing huge hardship without any analysis of whether it will even help meet their goals.

Our new analysis shows child poverty will rise even higher on this government’s watch -  to 4.8m by the end of this parliament -  unless it takes urgent action including scrapping the two-child limit in its forthcoming child poverty strategy and stepping back from benefit cuts.

It's certainly been a busy time to start at NEF! Here's what Tom Pollard Hollie Wright and I found digging into the claim that only (!) 250k people will be pushed into poverty from the benefit cuts. In reality it's a lot more 👇

Great statement below on abandoning the damaging and ineffective cuts announced in the Spring Statement - cites some of our NEF analysis showing the true nature of the cuts being approx £2bn more than reported neweconomics.org/2025/03/the-tr…

Our latest research was covered in the The Independent 🔽 independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n… In it, we REVEAL the severe issues tenants face while using the deposit protection system🧵

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As well as cutting health & disability benefits, the government plans to introduce conditionality for many people currently exempt from it I explained to Work & Pensions Committee yesterday that NEF's work shows this won't be an effective way to engage this group with employment support

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This shift in Jobcentre culture & priorities would be very welcome, but the positive agenda set out in last year's DWP White Paper is going to be so much harder to realise in the context of the benefit cuts & increased conditionality announced since then theguardian.com/society/2025/m…

There was no “millionaire exodus” from tax rises. The reporting was spurious. Link to research in next tweet

These MPs can see that pushing their disabled constituents into ever more economic security is the wrong thing to do - morally, practically and politically. These cuts desperately need to be rethought. 1/2

Because not all disabled people claim benefits. An increase in claims likely reflects an increase in take-up given the increase in financial hardship

In 1957 over 220,000 council homes were built in a single year…

John is right to be angry. It’s not only the biggest waste of an electoral majority in British political history. Starmer, as a representative of the establishment, has destroyed any prospect of Labour changing anything - even if he goes tomorrow. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Absolutely agree with Hollie Wright analysis of the latest Gov's housing proposals. RTB continues to deplete our social housing stock. We cannot allow any more sell-offs. Also, delivering 180 k social rent homes over 10 years is not enough to meet demand - we need 90,000 a year!

I talked to Big Issue about social housing and how to get the homes we need (spoiler: we're not getting there yet!). Check it out!