Tom is an Associate Director at the IFS and Head of the Income, Work and Welfare sector. His research focuses on tax and benefit policy, the low wage labour market, and the interaction of the two. He is the editor of IFS’ flagship reports on Living Standards, Inequality, and Poverty.
Education
MSc Economics (Distinction), University College London, 2014
BA Philosophy, Politics and Economics, University of Oxford, 2012
In the years since the pandemic, there has been a large and sustained rise in the number of adults being newly awarded working-age disability benefits each month.
