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Think tank: Resolution Foundation
Author(s): Louise Murphy; Greg Thwaites
May 20, 2025
This report from UK think tank the Resolution Foundation assesses the impact of the Spring 2025 disability and incapacity benefit reforms on employment.
In March, the Government released its Pathways to Work Green Paper, setting out a package of welfare reforms that amounted to a net reduction in spending of £4.8 billion in 2029-30.
On the Government’s own figures, 3.2 million families will lose out, 250,000 people will fall into poverty, and 700,000 families will fall further below the poverty line.
These benefit cuts were accompanied by a significant increase in employment support costing a cumulative £1.9 billion between 2026-27 and 2029-30, but with over half of that not coming until the final year.
