It's a straight enough question and the director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies had the answer.
The NHF based its figures on analysis of the pre-Budget report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Andrew Dilnot of the Institute for Fiscal Studies says hypothecation is just another way to raise taxes.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies estimates the stagnating economy will also push a further 600, 000 children into poverty.
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The Institute for Fiscal Studies pulled together the key figures in a report published in the summer.
Another one million households, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, receive the benefit in Scotland and Wales.
Paul Johnson, head of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, said poor and well-off pensioners would not be affected.
The government-funded study was carried out by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).
It increased by some 120% in real terms between 1975 and 2003, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
The Institute of Fiscal Studies is warning of a decade of pain, following the spending cuts and paying down debt.
Large families are already facing a "disproportionate" squeeze on their finances, the Institute for Fiscal Studies warned earlier this year.
According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, public sector workers nationally earn around 8% more than staff in the private sector.
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Is anyone surprised by today's Institute for Fiscal Studies report forecasting that, as Britain gets poorer, more people will be poor?
The measure is squarely directed at the poorest half of families, points out Mike Brewer of the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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According to Paul Johnson of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the safest conclusion is that for them things are basically unchanged.
As the Institute for Fiscal Studies, an independent research group, has demonstrated, the choice of formula for levying the tax is all-important.
Shadow education minister Stephen Twigg cited a recent report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies as evidence of the impact of the government's cuts.
Meanwhile, the head of the Institute of Fiscal Studies told MSPs at Holyrood that the spending squeeze has a lot more cutting to do.
The report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), funded by the the RAC Foundation, suggested a "radical overhaul" of road taxes was needed.
People on low incomes have suffered higher inflation than those on higher incomes in the past decade, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has said.
It would be of most benefit to middle-income families, says the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies, giving nothing to the poorest 10% of households.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies offers an online tool that allows people in Britain to estimate where they fit on the inequality scale.
Unless capacity growth has improved, it suggests that fiscal policy has been looser than previously thought, says Carl Emmerson of the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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But the Institute for Fiscal Studies predicted in December that the welfare shake-up would increase relative child poverty figures by 200, 000 in 2012-13 and 2013-14.
But independent analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies and others shows that both budgets took money from the rich and gave it to the poor.
Of 2.8 million households of working age without jobs, 2.5 million will see their entitlements reduced in real terms, according to the Institute For Fiscal Studies (IFS).
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Andrew Dilnot, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, acknowledges that hypothecation may be a way of raising more revenue, but sees it largely as a confidence trick.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) says a weak economy will mean the government has to borrow more than it forecast, unless it imposes tax rises and further spending cuts.
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Fiscal Studies, November 1998, Institute of Fiscal Studies, London.
In the UK yesterday the Institute for Fiscal Studies said average incomes will not rise before 2015 and even then will rise only slowly (probably only to be eroded by inflation).
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