While voters in Great Britain may be cheering the prospect of pre-election tax cuts, a new report by the Resolution Foundation indicates the celebrations could be short-lived. Find out how you could be affected A statement from the UK think tank the Resolution Foundation, has revealed that the £20 billion tax cuts announced by the […]

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For those working on a self-employed or contractor basis, securing a mortgage in the current economy of rising interest rates and a cost of living crisis is getting more difficult. However, UK building society Saffron says it is making mortgages more flexible for the self-employed and First Time Buyers. Rising interest rates have caused household […]

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The NHS will be exempt from the new health and social care levy, government plans reveal, yet in a bizarre twist, care providers and their workers will pay for the levy, The Telegraph has reported. There are also revelations that the NHS will take the lion’s share of the levy funds as part of the […]

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4.2 million self-employed workers do not qualify for SSP The NHS Track & Trace “pingdemic” has dominated the UK news headlines over the past two weeks. The Freelance Informer reports on the latest statutory sick pay entitlements of contractors, freelancers and sole traders and the latest list of industries that are exempt from self-isolation. The […]

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The ONS’ main data on wealth misses almost £800 billion of assets held by the wealthiest 1 per cent of UK households and correcting for this oversight means UK wealth inequality is higher than previously thought, according to new Resolution Foundation research. The Missing Billions examines the scale and distribution of wealth across the UK, and […]

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An independent think-tank focused on improving the living standards of those on low-to-middle incomes, has proposed in a new report, that the UK government should introduce a new Health and Social Care Levy, alongside a Pandemic Profits Levy. The author of the report, Resolution Foundation, suggests that it is proposing the biggest reform of wealth […]

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The Government’s £12.7bn Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) has been terribly targeted at those in need, according to a major new Resolution Foundation report to be published later this week. With over 400,000 workers claiming support, despite not losing any income during the crisis, the report said that almost 500,000 people were still without work […]

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