Increasing the National Insurance threshold does little to help benefit claimants

March 25, 2022 – Phil Agulnik

Our Director shares his thoughts on the Chancellor's NICs announcement at this week's Spring Statement. Most benefit claimants will see zero impact, many workers claiming Universal Credit will get around half the benefit other workers will enjoy and, for some, the increase in their net income will be even less.

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Our annual review suggests about £15 billion of benefits remain unclaimed each year

February 25, 2022 – Phil Agulnik

In our latest review of the amount of income-related benefits being left unclaimed by those entitled to them, our director Phil Agulnik explains why we decided to provide two methodologies in this year’s report - one with Universal Credit and one without.

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Don’t take away our take-up stats

February 03, 2022 – Phil Agulnik

As entitledto were posed to report on this year's benefits take-up rates the DWP put out a statistical notice that effectively puts something of a spanner in our works. Our Director, Phil Agulnik, explains in his latest blog.

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