Publications

For the most recent budgets please go to http://www.minimumincomestandard.org/
The Family Budget Unit collaborated with this project and this is where future updates and revision of budget standards will be found.

Publication To order:
An Overview of Recent Work on Standard Budgets in the United States and Other Anglophone Countries, Gordon M. Fisher 2007 Online
Low Cost but Acceptable Budget for Pensioners April 2006 Downloadable - pdf
Low Cost but Acceptable Budget for Families with Children and a Single Man April 2006 Downloadable - pdf
Low Cost but Acceptable Budget for Families with Children April 2005 Downloadable - pdf
Low Cost but Acceptable Budget for Pensioners April 2005 Downloadable - pdf
Low Cost but Aceptable Budget for a Single Man Aged 20-30 April 2005
Downloadable - pdf
Low Cost but Aceptable Budget for a Single Man Aged 20-30 April 2004 Downloadable - pdf
Low Cost but Acceptable Budget for Pensioners April 2004 Downloadable - pdf
Low Cost but Acceptable Budget for Families with Children April 2004 Downloadable - pdf
Low Cost but Acceptable Budget for pensioners updated to April 2003. Downloadable - pdf
Low Cost but Acceptable Budget for a families with children updated to April 2003. Downloadable - pdf
Low Cost but Acceptable wage levels and the 'exported costs' of low pay in Brighton and Hove. Peter Ambrose Downloadable - pdf
Low Cost but Acceptable: A Minimum Income Standard for Households with Children in Wales. Ed Hermione Parker, Unison, 2002. Downloadable - pdf
Modest but adequate budget for pensioners April 2002 prices Ed Hermione Parker, Age Concern England, 2002 Downloadable - pdf
Mapping low pay in East london September 2001, Ed Jane Wills, Unison, 2001 Downloadable - pdf
Low cost but acceptable: A minimum income standard for households aged 65-74 years April 2001 prices. Ed Hermione Parker, Age Concern England, 2001. Downloadable - pdf
Low cost but acceptable: A Minimum Income Standard for Households with Children in London's East End April 2001, Ed Hermione Parker, Unison, 2001. Downloadable - pdf
Low cost but acceptable: A minimum income standard for the UK: Muslim families with young children Tower Hamlets February 2001, Ed Hermione Parker, Unison, 2001. Downloadable - pdf
Low Cost but Acceptable Incomes for Older People. A minimum income standard for households aged 65-74 years in the UK. Ed. Parker H. Bristol. Policy Press. 2000. ISBN 1 86134 136 9. £19.99 (£12.99 voluntary organisations) Order from: Marston Book Services, PO Box 269, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4YN
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Low Cost but Acceptable: A minimum income standard for the UK: Families with young children. Ed. Parker H. Bristol. Policy Press. 1998. ISBN 1 86134 136 9. £19.99 (£12.99 voluntary organisations) Order from: Marston Book Services, PO Box 269, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4YN
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'Money to spend as they wish'. The Personal Expenses Allowance in Care Homes. London. Age Concern. 1997. Contact Age Concern England
The Adequacy of Foster Care Allowances Nina Oldfield, Aldershot: Ashgate, 1997 ISBN 1 85972 427 2 Order from : Averbury. Ashgate Publisjing Limited Gower House, Croft Rd, Aldershot, Hants GU11 3HR
Modest but Adequate. Summary budgets for sixteen household types. April 1997 prices. London. Family Budget Unit. 1997. Send cheque for £9.50 payable to Family Budget Unit to contact details, specify request for "Modest but Adequate"
The Costs of a Child: Living Standards for the 1990s, Nina Oldfield and Autumn CS Yu, London: Child Poverty Action Group, 1993 Order From : CPAG, 94, White Lion St, London, N1 9PF
Budget Standards for the United Kingdom Ed Jonathan Bradshaw, Aldershot: Avebury, 1993. ISBN 1 85628 591 X Order from : Averbury. Ashgate Publishing Limited Gower House, Croft Rd, Aldershot, Hants GU11 3HR