PODCAST: What is behind the UK’s asylum policy?

Paul Johnson, Hannah White and Anand Menon discuss how effective the UK government’s approach to asylum policy has been to date.

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How much should we worry about high government debt?

Paul Johnson and Professor David Miles Imperial College Business School discuss in our latest podcast.

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Whoever is Chancellor after the election is going to have a tough job.

We've built a new interactive tool with Nesta that lets you step into the Chancellor's shoes and see that for yourself.

Are you ready to be the Chancellor? Now's your chance:
ifs.org.uk/election-2024/…

“A year or so ago, it seemed plausible that the rapid rise in numbers claiming health-related benefits was a transitory pandemic-related phenomenon.

That explanation now appears unlikely.”

📗 Read our new report on the rise in health-related benefits: ifs.org.uk/publications/r…

'The central [@OBR_uk] forecast was that the stock of debt relative to GDP 50 years from now [would be] not far off 300% of GDP.'

Professor David Miles Imperial College Business School on the scale of the longer-term fiscal problem from rising debt.

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💼 Think you’ve got what it takes to Be the Chancellor?

Try our new interactive tool, created by Institute for Fiscal Studies researchers in partnership with Nesta.

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📈 #IFSSatStat : Increases in health-related benefit claims among younger ages mean that a 20-year-old today is about as likely to claim a health-related benefit as a 39-year-old was in 2019.

Read our report on the rise in health-related benefits: ifs.org.uk/publications/r…

New report out today by Institute for Fiscal Studies colleagues on recent trends in health related benefit receipt.

Roughly 2 in 100 more people *at all ages* (16 to 64) are receiving health related benefits today, compared to 2019. Means proportionally a larger change for young people.

Already the case that one in ten people of working age is receiving a health related benefit. These are remarkable numbers. And they are rising.

The number of new awards each month has more than doubled since 2019.

New report out today looking at the expected big rise in health-related benefits. This chart is pretty striking. Steady rise in disab benefits & fall in incap over many years but they both just rocket from around the pandemic - and forecast is for further rises.

'It wouldn't take an enormous sustained increase in the rate of growth of productivity in the UK to make the situation very dramatically better.'

Professor David Miles Imperial College Business School on the need for productivity growth in our latest podcast.

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Before the pandemic, 1 in 13 were claiming a health-related benefit. That's now set to rise to 1 in 8 by the end of the decade. We need better understanding of the causes rather than knee-jerk reactions. New analysis Institute for Fiscal Studies funded by abrdn Financial Fairness Trust
ifs.org.uk/news/42-millio…

'A 20-year-old today is about as likely to claim a health-related benefit as a 39-year-old was in 2019. A 35-year-old today is about as likely to claim as a 46-year-old in 2019.'

👆 I found this a helpful way to frame the scale of the recent surge in disability benefit claims.

🗳️ In an election year it can be hard to work out what parties’ policies mean and how they fit into the bigger picture.

We've built a new interactive tool that lets you take the reins of the Treasury and Be the Chancellor. Nesta

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EVENT: Professor Heidi L. Williams will give the 2024 IFS Annual Lecture on ‘Innovation and productivity policies: a budgetary perspective’

Wednesday 15 May | 6:30-8pm | The View, The Royal College of Surgeons of England

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PODCAST 🎙️ What is behind the UK’s asylum policy?

On this week’s episode of The Expert Factor, Hannah White, Anand Menon UK in a Changing Europe, and Paul Johnson Institute for Fiscal Studies explore asylum policy and how effective the government’s approach has been to date
instituteforgovernment.org.uk/podcast/expert…

⭐️ #NuffieldFunded as part of our General Election Analysis and Briefing Fund which aims to inform policy, pledges and public debate in the run-up to the next UK General Election.

The changes we outline would make inheritance tax fairer and reduce its negative effects on investment choices.

The sums raised could be used to cut the rate of IHT, fund other tax or spending priorities or reduce borrowing. Full Institute for Fiscal Studies piece here: ifs.org.uk/articles/raisi… 5/5

New today: the Budget didn't have any big-bang inheritance tax changes but it did introduce yet another new relief!

Arun Advani and I show the revenues gains from curtailing IHT reliefs for business assets, AIM shares, agricultural land and pension pots: £2bn+ in 2029-30 🧵