Apprenticeships, Child Benefit and Universal Credit: exploring the impact of eligibility criteria on living standards and income adequacy

This report, undertaken for Youth Futures Foundation, looks at the impact of a young person starting an apprenticeship on household incomes, and in particular the adequacy of income relative to the Minimum Income Standard (MIS). It uses two illustrative case study households (a couple with two children, one primary age and one secondary school age, and a lone parent with two children, one primary age and one secondary school age) to look at the impact of the loss of Child Benefit and the Universal Credit child element on a households’ ability to reach MIS, when a young person in the household starts an apprenticeship.