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Benefits tangles: problems of the benefits system for older homeless people and those at risk of homelessness
 — a briefing paper for Help the Aged and the UK Coalition on Older Homelessness
Author(s)Jenny Pannell
Corporate AuthorHelp the Aged; UK Coalition on Older Homelessness
PublisherHelp the Aged, London, 2002
Pages23 pp
SourceHelp the Aged, 207-221 Pentonville Road, London N1 9UZ.
KeywordsSocial security benefits ; Injury benefit ; Homelessness ; Tenants.
AnnotationThis briefing paper draws mainly on two research projects: one by the University of the West of England (UWE) on older homeless people for Help the Aged, hact (the Housing Associations Charitable Trust) and Crisis; the other on older people in the private rented sector for Help the Aged (with the University of Bristol). The paper includes discussion of: changes in and proposals to change the benefits system; and benefits issues for older people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness; and benefits issues for older private tenants. Recommendations for changes to benefits are made. This paper also links with a briefing paper, "Housing advice for older people", by the same author for Help the Aged (RH).
Accession NumberCPA-021204003 B
ClassmarkJH: JHH: K4A: KET

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