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Delivering benefits in old age
— the take up of the Minimum Income Guarantee | | Author(s) | Paul Dornan |
| Publisher | Ashgate, [in association with the Social Policy Research Unit, University of York], Aldershot, Hants, 2006 |
| Pages | 237 pp (Studies in cash & care) |
| Source | Ashgate Publishing Limited, Gower House, Croft Road, Aldershot, Hants GU11 3HR. |
| Keywords | Social security benefits ; Means testing ; Claims [services] ; Usage [services] ; Attitude ; Social policy. |
| Annotation | In April 1999, the New Labour government re-packaged Income Support (IS) for older people as the Minimum Income Guarantee (MIG), a social security benefit that is central to anti-poverty policy. This book sheds new light on the extent of non-take of MIG and of Pension Credit (which subsumed and replaced MIG in October 2003). It reviews research on take-up, highlighting gaps in understanding, and exploring strengths and weaknesses of the theoretical base. Socio-economic, demographic and attitudinal trends are analysed, to elucidate the impact these have had or will have on the proportion entitled to MIG/pension credit and the take-up rate. The author analyses the extent to which the New Labour pensions settlement - first articulated in "Partnership in pensions" and subsequently in "Simplicity, security and choice" (2001) - can deliver what was proposed. He presents results of an exercise in which take-up was modelled using Family Resources Survey data from 2001-02, followed by a longitudinal perspective on take-up. The impact of additional income on consumption is examined, using data from the Poverty and Social Exclusion survey, the Omnibus Survey, and the Family Expenditure Survey (FES). (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-060706002 B |
| Classmark | JH: JF4C: QLT: QLD: DP: TM2 |
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