UKMOD A3.0+ released

A new version of UKMOD, the free UK tax and benefit calculator, has been released. Version 3.0+ is updated to the fall 2021 budget announcements, and includes, among other things, new projections up to 2025,  separate accounting for the income taxes accruing to the devolved nations, updated nowcasting, added simulation of Scottish Child Payment bridging […]

UKMOD tool to estimate ‘overnight’ impact of the imminent cost of living increases

UKMOD has been used by the international thinktank, The Tony Blair Institute for Global Policy, to assess the ‘overnight’ impact of the impending National Insurance increases and rising energy prices across all of British society. UKMOD is a microsimulation tool which allows for tax and benefit policy changes to be tested on real data on incomes […]

Cancelling the £20 uplift will push 1 million people and 450,000 children into poverty

The removal of the £20 weekly uplift in Universal Credit standard allowances and Working Tax Credit basic element, “the biggest overnight cut to the basic rate of social security since the modern welfare state” as the Joseph Rowntree Foundation put it, would push 1 million people, of which 450,000 children, into poverty in 2022, in […]

The trade-offs for designing a fair Basic Income scheme

The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred renewed interest in the possibilities of a Universal Basic Income to address the key problems of income insecurity, poverty and income inequality that the pandemic exacerbated. In-work poverty has been growing in the last 20 years, a combination of job insecurity and precarious working conditions with high costs of housing, […]

The new Health and Social Care Levy: A tough but progressive measure

The new levy reveals progressive effects, despite its flat nature.
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Launching UKMOD Explore – policy-testing tool created by our Centre for Microsimulation and Policy Analysis

New web-based microsimulation model for testing UK tax and benefits reforms

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New CeMPA research and policy insights shared with Department of Work and Pensions

The programme for the Eastern Arc’s forthcoming workshop with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is now available. It’s a great opportunity to hear from DWP and discuss their plans with them, but also to hear about the research going on in the area across Eastern Arc. The event is free and open to […]