Along with funded partners Personal Finance Research Centre and Research Institute for Disabled Consumers (RiDC) we contributed to a submission to the Work & Pensions Committee Disability Employment Enquiry, based on findings from an earlier research project on the financial wellbeing of disable people in the UK.

Read more: financialfairness.org.uk/en/our-work/pu…

Out today new The Fabian Society report Cost Cutters: A plan to tackle the poverty premium and make markets work for low-income families, in partnership with Fair By Design.

Key findings and recommendations⬇️⬇️⬇️

Payments for *essential* goods and services aren't designed with the needs of people in poverty or on low incomes in mind—and sometimes payment methods create a poverty premium. Please watch and share these real stories.

Payments for *essential* goods and services aren't designed with the needs of people in poverty or on low incomes in mind—and sometimes payment methods create a poverty premium. Please watch and share these real stories.

Excited to share our new conceptual paper published in @plosone: journals.plos.org/plosone/articl….
The paper proposes a framework that aims to foster collaboration and new initiatives towards the prevention of gambling harms.
Agnes Nairn, Sharon Collard, Jamie Wheaton , Ben Ford

Next Thursday's Virtual MALG #SouthWest Meeting will feature presentations from @wiltshirecab, @pfrc_uk and Wessex Water and group discussions on collaboration and #moneyadvice across the generations. Register now via our new simpler Meeting booking system bit.ly/3ri0GUM

📢Save the date for this University of Bristol event for GW4 Alliance academics.
It is co-hosted by Bristol Poverty Institute (BPI) Livelihoods and Debt Research Cluster and the Bristol Hub for Gambling Harms Research.
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Interesting analysis from Which?. Tallies with our analysis for Fair By Design which found an individual will pay about 11% more if paying monthly for car insurance, rather than annually.

(Which?'s case studies paid 10-15% more: which.co.uk/news/article/p… )

17% of households in Scotland – nearly 450,000 households – are ‘in serious financial difficulties’. While this matches the level across the rest of the UK, a higher proportion of Scottish households had accessed a foodbank in the past 4 weeks.

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'fewer Scottish households have money in savings to cope with financial shocks; around three-in-ten have no savings at all'.

abrdn Financial Fairness Trust CEO Mubin Haq writing in The Scotsman today on our latest research with Personal Finance Research Centre

Read more: scotsman.com/news/opinion/c…

Scots households in large urban areas are performing worse on all indicators of financial wellbeing compared to rural households.

Findings from the latest edition of our Financial Fairness Tracker with Personal Finance Research Centre

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. Sharon Collard on BBC Radio Scotland this morning, discussing findings from the latest analysis of our Financial Fairness Tracker with Personal Finance Research Centre

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As freezing temperatures hit Scotland, 4 in 10 households describe their energy costs as ‘unaffordable’

New analysis of our Financial Fairness Tracker with Personal Finance Research Centre released today.

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Jamie Evans (@Jamie-Evans92.bsky.social) Personal Finance Research Centre Sara Davies Martin Coppack 'We like our data raw and our analysis well done' 😀

📅Our 2023 round-up, including:

A message from our Research Co-Directors, Sharon Collard and Sara Davies; a summary of our research this year; and our November conference celebrating 25 years of PFRC🎉!

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Our December Newsletter is now available.

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Discover a selection of #poverty related research, news, reports and events.

Our Honarary Research Fellow, the imcomparable @Chris_fitch, is also host of the Money Advice Trust #VulnerabilityMatters podcast. In the latest 'end of 2023' episode Chris talks to Lee Walls about the lessons for life and vulnerability of being a fire-walker soundcloud.com/vulnerability-…

“While there are indicators that the average household is coming to terms with the higher costs they face, the reality for those at the bottom end of the income distribution is that things are getting worse, not better.' - Sharon Collard