All news on the topic: Living standards

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt promised a 2p cut to the rate of national insurance in the Autumn Statement in a desperate bid to turn around the Tories' dire poll ratings

Writing for the Daily Mirror, TUC general secretary Paul Nowak says that even more austerity is on the way after digesting Jeremy Hunt's Autumn Statement

The Mirror's Kevin Maguire gives his verdict on the Tory Autumn Statement, as he warns 'taking people for fools will backfire on Jeremy Hunt and Rishi Sunak'

The Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt 'was forced to leaf through a dog-eared guidebook to previous Tory victories' writes The Mirror's head of politics Jason Beattie

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is rumoured to be considering slashing the welfare bill by around £1.3 billion by not increasing benefits in the usual way

As Tory Jeremy Hunt reportedly plots slashing benefits and cutting inheritance tax, Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves unveiled Labour's plan to save working families up to £3,000 a year

Ahead of the Chancellor's Autumn Statement, the Resolution Foundation said Whitehall departments are braced for cuts on the scale of those unleashed by George Osborne

Latest data from the Resolution Foundation suggests that workers aged 23 and over will have to be paid an hourly rate of at least £11.46 hourly rate from next year

A woman has come under fire after sharing a video talking about the difficulties and downsides of being a landlord. She shared a tearful video explaining what it's like to have difficult tenants

Charity Care4Calais, which supports refugees, has announced it plans to take the Home Office to court in a battle over RAF Wethersfield

Bankers were paid more than £13billion in bonuses in 2008, on the eve of the financial crisis, and the bid to further enrich the UK’s bankers was announced by Kwasi Kwarteng

If you think your kin are set to lose a chunk of money due to inheritance tax, you will be pleased to hear there may be a way around it - by sending them regular ‘gifts’ while you still live

An assessment by think tank the New Economics Foundation, conducted following the announcement that inflation remained unchanged at 6.7% in September, shows many households are facing the prospect of further struggles

The Prime Minister, who made bringing inflation down to about 5.3% by the end of the year his "number one priority", said: "We've made great progress but I know there is still a way to go"

The Trussell Trust expects to hand out more than a million aid packages to hungry people over the three months from December to February as the cost-of-living crisis bites

Labour can give Tories the boot but the country now wants to know what they would do in Government - and we urge the party to start spelling it out in more detail

The Mirror's Jason Beattie provides his analysis after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak attempted to take the conference stage to defend the Conservatives’ record in power

It has emerged rail firms consulted with ministers before pressing ahead with the cull, but the Government has tried to claim it was not involved when it could have halted it

Karla Bennett and husband Matt quit their jobs and sold everything they owned to travel the world full-time with their children - and say they have "everything in life"

New figures reveal 911,000 over-55s withdrew £13billion using their "pensions freedoms" last year, sparking fears that future retirees face financial misery

The United Nations will review the UK Government’s progress in improving the lives of disabled people after a review in 2016 found that it was guilty of 'grave and systematic' violations of the UN’s disability convention

The average FTSE 100 chief executive netted £3.91million in 2022 which was the highest in five years after jumping from £3.41million in 2021, according to think tank the High Pay Centre

Jaydipkumar Rameshchandra Valand, 48, packed 40 tenants into a four-bedroom house in Brent, North London, and has now been banned from being a landlord in England for five years

As the Tories' grip on power after 14 years of failure weakens by the day, they are becoming increasingly desperate in trying to shift the blame, argues Kevin Maguire

We salute the grafters who deliver take-aways - but Stride, peering down from his ivory tower, is glorifying a gig economy that is far too often an employment Wild West