This encompasses priorities around:
- promoting financial resilience and reducing poverty, including by harnessing the full set of levers available through the Department and its public bodies, other government departments and Local and Combined Authorities
- supporting people to help meet the cost of living and work across government to support the formulation and delivery of effective housing policies, particularly with the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC)
- delivering financial security for low-income working adults, and for children in low-income households
Send correspondence and further questions to evidence.strategyteam@dwp.gov.uk.
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Over-indebtedness is an increasing problem for Credit Unions in Northern Ireland due to the economic downturn with arrears now standing at 19% of total loans. This situation is likely to be exacerbated as the Welfare Ref...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: Queen's University Belfast
The project aims to develop web-based tools that enhance the financial capability of over-indebted members, which directly addresses the question of how to identify and protect vulnerable households and promote financial stability and sustainable repayments.
Bank of England (Money and Credit, June 2020) reports that households repaid £7.4 bn of consumer credit in April 2020, the largest net repayment on record. The lockdowns due to COVID 19 could have initially shifted...
Funded by: COVID
Lead research organisation: Birkbeck, University of London
Background. The doctoral thesis explored how individual, geographical and temporal context frames the subjective and objective lived experience of financial distress within the UK, with a focus on 18- to 39-years old ad...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Manchester
Partially relevant as it focuses on consumer credit management but does not directly address debt recovery system for vulnerable households.