This report looks at the UK higher education fee regime and finds that 10% of the 1 million+ UK-domiciled full-time and part-time students studying first degrees at English universities are likely to escape the student fee system by paying their fees up front, undermining successive government claims that the current system is progressive. The research… Read more »
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2018 Budget Representation – Intergenerational Foundation
2018 Budget Representation A submission by the Intergenerational Foundation detailing what areas of policy the government should address in the 2018 budget to be fair to young people.
Baby-boomers concessions: How ticket discounts for a wealthier generation reinforce unfairness
This report looks at 35 of the UK’s leading attractions’ ticketing policies and questions whether their ticketing policies are intergenerationally fair. The report finds that more than 75% of paid-entrance museums, galleries and attractions in the UK are giving £65 million worth of ticket-price concessions each year to the over-60s, regardless of their ability to… Read more »
House of Lords Intergenerational Fairness Inquiry – Intergenerational Foundation response
Overcoming barriers to longer tenancies – Intergenerational Foundation response
2018 Draft Air Quality Strategy – Intergenerational Foundation response
2018 IF Index: How does the wellbeing of today’s twenty somethings compare to previous cohorts?
This report focuses on the newly emerging field of “wellbeing” and young people. This is a discipline that seeks to use wellbeing analysis as a way of investigating improvements or deteriorations in an individual’s quality of life. This is brand new research that looks beyond the dry analysis of facts and figures, and seeks to… Read more »
All party parliamentary group land value capture call for evidence – Intergenerational Foundation response
An Extraordinary Anomaly: Why workers over state pension age should pay National Insurance
An extraordinary anomaly currently exists in the UK tax system. There is a serious imbalance in the tax treatment of UK workers who belong to different age groups. People who work beyond their state pension age become exempt from paying National Insurance contributions, a tax break which the Intergenerational Foundation believes has now become impossible to… Read more »