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• Posted on 10 December 2021 by Isabel Taylor, Research Director

  “Help-seekers and multi-strugglers”: Who felt the worst mental and financial effects of the pandemic?

  When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the UK in early 2020, much of the country shut down to try to prevent people contracting and passing on the virus. This meant that the way we all lived and worked changed radically almost overnight.

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  Tags: COVID-19, economy, employment, financial insecurity, income, mental health

• Posted on 23 March 2015 by Kirby Swales, Director of Survey Research Centre

  Financial Insecurity in the Recession

  

  A closer analysis of the first four waves of Understanding Society shows that a quarter (25%) of all adults have said that they were finding it difficult to cope financially at least once during 2009-2013.

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  Tags: British Household Panel Survey, Understanding Society, financial insecurity, poverty, recession

• Posted on 28 July 2014 by Mehul Kotecha, Senior Researcher

  Mind the gap – what do we know about those in fuel poverty?

  

  In July 2014, the government published its consultation document to help develop a new fuel poverty strategy for England (Cutting the Cost of Keeping Warm: A new fuel poverty strategy for England consultation document). This is the first such strategy in over a decade and underlines the importance of government policy as a lever in helping to address this issue.

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  Tags: fuel poverty, bad housing, environment, financial insecurity, housing, poverty

• Posted on 20 June 2013

  The other side of the coin - the impact of the recession on our feelings of financial insecurity

  Last week the government released the latest data on household incomes.  This showed that our incomes have continued to fall since the recession, mainly because wages are not keeping up with inflation and cuts to benefits.  And the statistics show a big difference between the young and the...

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  Tags: financial insecurity, pensions, recession