Poverty and Inequality in the UK:

research and innovative development projects, which it hopes will be of value to policymakers, practitioners and service users. The facts presented and views expressed in this Commentary are, however, those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Foundation. Neither are the views expressed necessarily those of the other individuals or institutions mentioned here, including the Institute for Fiscal Studies, which has no corporate view. Co-funding from the ESRC-funded Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at IFS (grant number RES-589-28-0001) is also very gratefully acknowledged. Data from the Family Resources Survey were made available by the Department for Work and Pensions, which bears no responsibility for the interpretation of the data in this Commentary. The authors wish to thank their colleague Mike Brewer, whose comments and insight greatly improved this Commentary. Any errors and al