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Stigma, claim costs and means-tested pensioner benefits
— end-of-award report (project R000239105) | | Author(s) | Stephen Pudney, Ruth Hancock, Holly Sutherland |
| Corporate Author | Economic and Social Research Council - ESRC |
| Publisher | Electronic format only, 2004 |
| Pages | unnumbered |
| Source | Downloaded document (5.4.04): www.le.ac.uk/economics/sep2/R000239105finalreport.... |
| Keywords | Social security benefits ; Means testing ; Costs ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Research Reviews. |
| Annotation | There are three main means-tested benefits for pensioners in the UK: the Minimum Income Guarantee (MIG), formerly Income Support (IS), which provides general income maintenance; Housing Benefit (HB), providing assistance with rents; and Council Tax Benefits (CTB) reducing liabilities for the local Council Tax. The authors describe how they used data from the Family Resources Survey (FRS) and micro-econometric measures to analyse benefits take-up behaviour. Such models explore the implications of overlapping entitlements under multiple benefit programmes and of error induced by imperfect income and capital measurement. Another objective is to use take-up models to estimate the cash equivalents of the barriers preventing take-up. These barriers may include social stigma, costly information acquisition, and "hassle"; the cash equivalent is constructed using the compensating variation principle. Lastly, the impact of estimated costs on the measurement of pensioner poverty and the assessment of simulated policy reform is explored. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040615208 E |
| Classmark | JH: JF4C: WC: TOB: 3A:6KC * |
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