Archive - Inequalities

The PIP cuts and public opinion

Exempting current claimants will avoid the worst controversies - but there's a chance of more resistance as the cuts are implemented

Jun 30 •

Ben Baumberg Geiger

April 2025

How job quality has changed since Covid

The highest-quality survey series is finally out, telling us how jobs have really changed since 2017

Apr 7 •

Ben Baumberg Geiger

March 2025

The headline disability benefit cuts are £9bn, not £4.7bn

The OBR are assuming that people change their behaviour in response to the cuts - without this, the cuts are nearly twice as deep

Mar 28 •

Ben Baumberg Geiger

Flex Plus working and disability inclusion

Or: why don't employers offer more deeply flexible jobs - and what can we do to change this?

Mar 25 •

Ben Baumberg Geiger

A progressive agenda on the medicalisation of mental health

Some theoretical groundwork to start paving the way towards an alternative to cuts, and towards a better, more inclusive society more broadly

Mar 24 •

Ben Baumberg Geiger

A quick update for the Resolution Foundation panel

An update rather than a full post, to be transparent about things I'm saying in a panel discussion this morning

Mar 6 •

Ben Baumberg Geiger

Mental distress among people receiving benefits: new evidence

The majority of people receiving benefits report mental distress, many have recently thought about self-harm, and reported work limitations are…

Mar 4 •

Ben Baumberg Geiger

February 2025

Just how common is benefits conditionality?

There are newspaper claims that conditionality is rare, but wider claims conditionality is ubiquitous – this post explains how both can be true.

Feb 24 •

Ben Baumberg Geiger

January 2025

Conditionality and mental health: new evidence

A new study of Danish RCTs shows how the impact of conditionality depends on people's pre-existing mental health

Jan 20 •

Ben Baumberg Geiger

November 2024

'Get Britain Working', and the challenge of welfare messaging

How a positive message sounded like a threat

Nov 27, 2024 •

Ben Baumberg Geiger

October 2024

On the OBR's new Welfare Trends Report

It repeatedly makes the problems seem worse than they are - but it's a valuable resource nevertheless

Oct 11, 2024 •

Ben Baumberg Geiger

How the Tories messed up the benefits system

This post is not about what you think it's going to be about.

Oct 7, 2024 •

Ben Baumberg Geiger

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