In a critical analysis of the UK Government's planned reforms, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) also points out thousands more households will lose the benefit over the next few years because the threshold for receiving it will remain fixed and not take into account wage inflation. The IFS argues while it made sense to target universal benefits paid to the better-off as part of efforts to tackle the budget deficit, the way it was being done was "problematic" and the child benefit cuts would cause "incoherence" in the welfare system.