Shifting into the lean and slippered pantaloon? Employment in the sixth age.

Understand this issue

Pensions are far from broken but could still use a fix

comment

Paul Johnson writes for The Times on the 'simple steps' get us to a 'stable, simple, affordable' pensions system.

18 December 2023

Why inheritance tax should be reformed

comment

"Addressing problems in the current system is increasingly important". David Sturrock and Bee Boileau write for The Conversation.

18 January 2024

The future of the state pension

podcast

We discuss the current challenges facing the state pension - and options for reform.

21 December 2023

Policy analysis

The future of the state pension

report

This IFS Pensions Review report sets out key challenges for the UK’s state pension system and suggests a way forward for the future

13 December 2023

Spring Budget 2024

collection

All our analysis of the Spring Budget 2024. Includes research, comment, explainers and more.

6 March 2024

Recent trends in and the outlook for health-related benefits

report

Recipients of and spending on health-related benefits have risen rapidly since the start of the pandemic, posing a serious challenge for policymakers.

19 April 2024

Academic research

Saving after retirement and preferences for residual wealth

working paper

We use administrative data for Norway to estimate an incomplete-market life-cycle model of retired singles and couples.

18 January 2024

Dementia incidence trend in England and Wales, 2002–19, and projection for dementia burden to 2040: analysis of data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

journal article

We examined dementia trends in England and Wales from 2002 to 2019, addressing bias and non-linearity, with limited post-2010 data.

30 October 2023

The labor market effects of disability benefit loss

working paper

Leveraging age and health cutoffs in the reassessment, the paper estimates employment responses to loss or reduction of benefits.

29 September 2023