Fiscal rules and frameworks

A report considering how effective means-tested benefits are at reaching the right people. The most comprehensive study of take-up ever undertaken, it gives a detailed breakdown of the results.

This commentary surveys some of the issues that should be on the Government's mind if it wishes to look after the economy's microeconomic foundations.

This commentary provides assessment and analysis of the three main parties' tax and social security proposals.

The difficulties encountered in forecasting social security expenditure (significantly underpredicted for much of the 1980s) have long been a source of concern-not least to officials in the DSS.

The most dramatic change in the 1989 Budget was a major reform of the structure of employee's National Insurance contributions (NICs).