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Winners and losers
— assessing the distributional effects of long-term care funding regimes | | Author(s) | Ruth Hancock, Ariadna Juarez-Garcia, Adelina Comas-Herrera |
| Journal title | Social Policy & Society, vol 6, pt 3, July 2007 |
| Pages | pp 379-395 |
| Source | http://www.journals.cambridge.org |
| Keywords | Expenditure [care] ; Long term ; Public expenditure ; Mathematical models. |
| Annotation | Using two linked simulation models, the authors examine the public expenditure costs and distributional effects of potential reforms to long-term care funding in the UK. Changes in the means tests for user contributions to care costs are compared with options for the abolition of these means tests (free personal care). The latter generally cost more than the former and benefit higher income groups more than those on lower incomes (measuring income in relation to the age-specific income distribution). Reforms to the means tests target benefits towards those on lower incomes. However, the highest income groups are net losers if free personal care is financed at a higher tax rate on higher incomes and the effect on the whole population considered. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070709005 A |
| Classmark | QD: 4Q: WN8: 3LM |
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