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This commentary reviews the government’s tax and benefit reforms affecting pensioners to date, and examines the evidence from the latest official low income figures on the government’s record on pensioner poverty so far.

Authors

Alissa Goodman
Alissa Goodman

Research Fellow University College London

Alissa is an IFS Research Fellow and a Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Longitudinal Studies at the UCL Institute of Education.

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Michal Myck

Andrew Shephard
Andrew Shephard

Research Associate University of Pennsylvania

Andrew is a Research Associate at the IFS and an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Report details

DOI
10.1920/co.ifs.2003.0093
ISBN
978-1-903274-30-9
Publisher
IFS

Suggested citation

A, Goodman and M, Myck and A, Shephard. (2003). Sharing in the nation’s prosperity? Pensioner poverty in Britain. London: IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/sharing-nations-prosperity-pensioner-poverty-britain (accessed: 16 April 2024).

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