Becca Stacey
Senior Research Officer (2022-2025)
Becca was a Senior Research Officer at Money and Mental Health for three years. She’s passionate about producing research that generates change so everyone has an equal chance of financial security, regardless of their mental health, and ensuring people experiencing a mental health problem are at the heart of, and drive, this work. Before joining Money and Mental Health, she worked at the anti-poverty charity Z2K, undertaking research and policy work on how Universal Credit and disability benefits can better support people in vulnerable situations, the Obesity Health Alliance, and Citizens Advice Westminster. She enjoys spending time with friends and learning Spanish in her spare time. (she/her)
Policy notes and publications
- Always on your mind March 20, 2024 - Preventing persistent money and mental health problems.
- Through the lens: Ethnicity, money and mental health April 19, 2023 - Exploring how our ethnicity can interact with our money and mental health.
- Through the lens: Age, money and mental health December 15, 2022 - Exploring how our age can interact with our money and mental health.
- Through the lens: Gender, money and mental health September 21, 2022 - Exploring how our gender can interact with our money and mental health.
- Money and Mental Health’s submission to the Scottish Government’s consultation on a Mental Health Moratorium January 14, 2025 - Money and Mental Health supports the Scottish Government's proposed eligibility criteria, application process, and protections for the Mental Health Moratorium. In particular, we support the decision to widen the eligibility criteria to include those receiving treatment voluntarily and within a community.
- Money and Mental Health’s submission to the Work and Pensions Select Committee’s inquiry into Pensioner Poverty: challenges and mitigations December 20, 2024 - Setting out the steps we would like to see the government, the Money and Pensions Service, pension providers and administrators take to support people with mental health problems to have better financial health in retirement.
- Money and Mental Health’s submission to the Department for Work and Pensions consultation on Making Work Pay: Strengthening Statutory Sick Pay December 2, 2024 - Why employees earning below the Lower Earnings Replacement should receive 100% of their average weekly earnings through the Statutory Sick Pay system.
- Money and Mental Health’s submission to the Work and Pensions Committee’s second inquiry into safeguarding vulnerable claimants December 2, 2024 - Since the Work and Pensions Select Committee's previous inquiry into safeguarding vulnerable claimants, Money and Mental Health has highlighted two new developments from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) that raise further concerns about the inadequacy of its processes for identifying and supporting individuals with complex needs due to mental health conditions.
Recent blogs
- Three key changes the DWP’s own research shows should be made to health and disability benefit assessments October 18, 2024
- Work coaches and the mental health knowledge gap August 28, 2024
- Universal Credit: Why managed migration is failing people with mental health problems May 22, 2024
- The government’s proposed benefits reforms are a worrying step backwards April 23, 2024
- How to disrupt the long-term cycle of money and mental health problems March 20, 2024