Exploring opportunities and challenges presented by vulnerability data-sharing.
November 16, 2023
Breaking the cycle
The case for integrating money and mental health support during the cost of living crisis.
July 18, 2023
The pensions maze
Achieving better retirements for people with mental health problems.
June 6, 2023
Annual Impact Report 2022
Our achievements in 2022 and look ahead to our work for the coming year.
April 26, 2023
Through the lens: Ethnicity, money and mental health
Exploring how our age can interact with our money and mental health.
April 19, 2023
Untapped potential
Reducing economic inactivity among people with mental health problems.
March 13, 2023
Written off?
Making insurance work better for people with mental health problems.
February 8, 2023
Through the lens: Age, money and mental health
Exploring how our age can interact with our money and mental health.
December 15, 2022
Bombarded
Reducing the psychological harm caused by the cost of living crisis.
December 6, 2022
Through the lens: Gender, money and mental health
Exploring how our gender can interact with our money and mental health.
September 21, 2022
A fit-for-purpose managed migration process
Safeguarding claimants with mental health problems in the move to Universal Credit.
September 12, 2022
No One Left Behind
Making levelling up deliver for people with mental health problems.
July 12, 2022
A tale of two crises: the cost of living and mental health
Revealing the devastating impact of the cost of living crisis on people with mental health problems.
June 8, 2022
Annual Impact Report 2021
Our Annual Impact Report highlights the achievements we’ve had in the past year and outlines the work ahead.
April 26, 2022
Not a Secondary Issue
Examining the extent to which people in secondary mental health care face financial difficulty.
March 31, 2022
Time to Act
Exploring the legal duties that essential services firms have to people with mental health problems under the Equality Act.
February 2, 2022
Raising the stakes: Overcoming barriers to tackling gambling-related harm
Setting out how financial services firms can overcome barriers to tackling gambling-related harm.
January 18, 2022
Recommissioning debt advice services: meeting the needs of people with mental health problems
Making the case for the Money and Pensions Service to protect face-to-face debt advice.
December 17, 2021
The state we’re in: Money and mental health in a time of crisis
A state-of-the-nation snapshot of the financial and mental wellbeing of people across the UK during the pandemic.
November 24, 2021
Lifting the tax burden: Supporting people with mental health problems with council tax
Highlighting the support people with mental health problems need to pay council tax.
November 11, 2021
Safety first: Why the Online Safety Bill should tackle scam adverts
Setting out why the Online Safety Bill must tackle online scam ads.
July 29, 2021
Annual Impact Report 2020/2021
Celebrating our impact in 2020/2021.
July 13, 2021
Set up to fail
How the DWP can make it easier for people to get help with Universal Credit.
May 26, 2021
Safety net
Breaking the link between online financial harms and mental health problems.
March 17, 2021
Closing the gap
How government and employers can close the mental health income gap
February 3, 2021
Caught in the web
Exploring the link between experience of mental health problems and online scams.
December 9, 2020
Convenience at a cost
How online retailers are putting people with mental health problems at risk of financial harm.
November 10, 2020
Mind the Income gap
Exploring the long term factors which have lead to the mental health income gap.
September 22, 2020
Annual Review 2019/20
Our Annual Review sets out our research and policy achievements of 2019/20.
July 27, 2020
Help along the way
Exploring the challenges that people with mental health problems face when accessing free debt advice.
July 21, 2020
A safer bet
Exploring the link between online gambling and mental health.
July 15, 2020
Income in crisis
Exploring the link between income and mental health during Covid-19.
June 16, 2020
Money and mental health at a time of crisis
How the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted the finances of people with mental health problems.
April 2, 2020
Information is power
Preventing financial difficulties associated with mental health problems.
December 3, 2019
Failing to connect: mental health problems and telecoms
Exploring the challenges people with mental health problems face in the telecomms market.
November 27, 2019
The money and mental health manifesto 2019
Five ways to boost mental and financial wellbeing across the UK.
November 6, 2019
Data protecting
Using financial data to support customers.
October 22, 2019
Annual Review 2018/19
Our Annual Review sets out our research and policy achievements of 2018/19.
July 25, 2019
A little help from my friends
Tools to support financial decision-making for people with mental health problems.
July 16, 2019
Debt and mental health
Analysing the latest data on the links between debt and mental health problems.
March 25, 2019
The benefits assault course
Improving access to the benefits system for people with mental health problems.
March 4, 2019
Breathing Space
Drawing on the views of our Research Community to assess how Breathing Space debt respite for people in mental health crisis care could work.
January 31, 2019
Access to cash
Exploring people with mental health problem’s attitudes to cash.
December 19, 2018
A silent killer
Breaking the link between financial difficulty and suicide.
December 3, 2018
Returns policies
How retailers can make the returns process more accessible.
November 22, 2018
Vulnerability: the experience of debt advisers
Supporting debt advice clients in vulnerable situations
November 14, 2018
Too ill to work, too broke not to
The cost of sickness absence for people with mental health problems
November 1, 2018
Travel insurance
Exploring people with mental health problems access to travel insurance.
August 21, 2018
Access essentials
Giving people with mental health problems equal access to vital services.
July 3, 2018
Annual Review 2017/18
Highlighting our achievements in 2017/2018.
June 19, 2018
Fear and foul play – Bailiff reform
Making the case for bailiff reform.
May 29, 2018
Informal borrowing and mental health problems
Exploring people with mental health problems’ experience of informal borrowing.
May 10, 2018
Where the heart is
Exploring people with mental health problems’ experience of social housing and rent arrears.
April 16, 2018
Recovery space
Minimising financial harm caused by mental health crisis.
February 19, 2018
Levelling the playing field
How regulators can support consumers with mental health problems.
December 13, 2017
Gambling
Exploring the links between mental health problems and gambling.
November 20, 2017
Whose job is it anyway?
How mental health practitioners can help people to navigate financial difficulty.
October 16, 2017
The Shopper Stopper
An evaluation of Shopper stopper, the tool designed with Plexus to help give people control over their spending.
October 5, 2017
Fintech for good
How financial technology can support people with mental health problems. Katie Evans, Head of Policy [...]
July 18, 2017
2016/17 Annual review
Our first annual review, assessing our aims and achievements in 2016/17.
June 14, 2017
Overstretched, overdrawn, underserved
Financial difficulty and mental health at work.
May 31, 2017
Point of sale credit
Exploring ‘buy now, pay later’ retail credit and why this may cause financial difficulties for people with mental health problems.
May 22, 2017
The money and mental health manifesto
Setting out our recommendations on how the next government can deliver on breaking the link between financial difficulty and mental health problems, ahead of the 2017 General Election.
April 26, 2017
Subscription retail: an expensive trap
Exploring how consumers with mental health problems can be protected from the subscription retail ‘trap’.
April 5, 2017
Running out of energy
Exploring adjustments that could be made by the energy market to ensure that people with mental health problems are not disadvantaged as consumers.
February 27, 2017
Seeing through the fog
How mental health problems affect financial capability.
February 8, 2017
Responsible retail
How retailers can help consumers with mental help problems to control ‘crisis spending’.
February 8, 2017
The other one in four
How financial difficulty is neglected in mental health services.
December 2, 2016
Strength in numbers
Exploring issues with third party access to financial services, and how allowing carers access may be beneficial for people with financial problems and poor mental health.
November 29, 2016
Busting the banks open
Setting out the case for a major data study of financial difficulty ahead of the Open Banking launch in 2018.
November 10, 2016
Night-time shopping
Highlighting the growing problem of the online retail environment for people with mental health problems, especially noting night-time shopping and targeted advertisements.
November 9, 2016
The missing link
How access to debt advice alongside IAPT could double recovery rates for people with depression and problem debt.
November 2, 2016
In control
Exploring the psychological drivers of increased spending during periods of poor mental health and exploring a range of possible solutions.
July 13, 2016
Money on your mind
Analysing the toxic link between financial difficulty and mental health problems.
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