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Closing the gap

Our final report for the Mental Health and Income commission revealed that average income for people with common mental health conditions is £8,400 lower than for the wider population.

The report sets out how government and employers can tackle the barriers to employment and discriminatory work pratcies that are causing the the mental health income gap. Read the report here.

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“Employers should encourage and lift up their employees; make them feel appreciated rather than a cog that needs to be replaced when broken.”

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Money and Mental Health’s submission to the Work and Pensions Select Committee’s inquiry into Pensioner Poverty: challenges and mitigations

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.

December 20, 2024
Press Releases

Money and Mental Health response to Government employment white paper

November 26, 2024

Benefits

Three key changes the DWP’s own research shows should be made to health and disability benefit assessments

Becca Stacey, Senior Research Officer, Money and Mental Health

October 18, 2024
Debt

Always on your mind

Preventing persistent money and mental health problems.

March 20, 2024
In the news

Raconteur

October 07, 2022

Best practice

Best practice checklist: employers

How employers can support people with their money and mental health.

February 03, 2021

Latest publications

Shining a light

Exploring the role of financial services in tackling gambling harms.

Reforming the Mental Health Act

Time to tackle the links between financial difficulty and acute mental illness.

In the public interest?

The psychological toll of local and national government debt collection practices.

Happy anniversary?

A year of the Consumer Duty.

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