Alfie Stirling (@alfie_stirling) 's Twitter Profile
Alfie Stirling

@alfie_stirling

@alfie-stirling.bsky.social. Director of Insight & Policy @JRF_UK | previously @NEF & @IPPR | 'all models are wrong, but some are useful' (G Box)

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This from the OBR on Real Household Disposable Income is key. Living standards are flattered by non-tangible 'imputed rent' -- that's very much *not* the stuff of "pounds in people's pockets". And even with this included, overall government policy has lowered living standards.

This from the OBR on Real Household Disposable Income is key.

Living standards are flattered by non-tangible 'imputed rent' -- that's very much *not* the stuff of "pounds in people's pockets".

And even with this included, overall government policy has lowered living standards.
Iain Porter (@iainkporter) 's Twitter Profile Photo

DWP is using a sleight of hand in its disability benefit cuts impact assessment: Actual increase in poverty is closer to 400,000, not the 250,000 in the impact assessment. Quick thread explaining why. 🧵1/7

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🗣️ "This is particularly painful for the lowest income families." Our Director of Insight and Policy, Alfie Stirling spoke to Sky News Wilfred Frost this morning about the impacts of the range of bill increases coming into effect today.

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How can you tell when a country is over adjusting for financial market reaction/fiscal rules? When you see that had Trump announced tariffs just a few weeks earlier, it could have avoided billions in permanent cuts to low income disabled people.

How can you tell when a country is over adjusting for financial market reaction/fiscal rules?

When you see that had Trump announced tariffs just a few weeks earlier, it could have avoided billions in permanent cuts to low income disabled people.
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Thanks Work & Pensions Committee for asking me to give evidence today on disability benefit cuts. Govt pledged to end moral scar of food banks. But cutting £7bn from disabled people's incomes will deepen that scar & push many further from work. More from Joseph Rowntree Foundation: jrf.org.uk/social-securit…