| |
Centre for Policy on Ageing | |
 | |
|
| The impact of benefit and tax uprating on incomes and poverty | | Corporate Author | Joseph Rowntree Foundation - JRF |
| Journal title | Findings, 2218, April 2008 |
| Publisher | Joseph Rowntree Foundation - JRF, April 2008 |
| Pages | 4 pp |
| Source | Joseph Rowntree Foundation, The Homestead, 40 Water End, York YO30 6WP. http://www.jrf.org.uk |
| Keywords | Social security benefits ; Income tax [older people] ; Income [older people] ; Poverty ; Social policy ; Mathematical models. |
| Annotation | Each year, the government decides by how much to raise benefits and tax allowances. The basis for these upratings is rarely debated, yet has major long-term consequences for the relative living standards of different groups and for public finances. A team of researchers from the London School of Economics (LSE) and the Universities of Essex, Oxford and East London considers the implications of present uprating policies, with the aim of stimulating debate on this hidden area of policy-making. The impact of different uprating systems is outlined in respect of the effects on poverty and the public purse, and the distributional effects of fiscal drag and benefit erosion. The full report (same title), is by Holly Sutherland, Martin Evans, Ruth Hancock, John Hills and Francesca Zentornio, published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), and also available as a free download (from www.jrf.org.uk). (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080418001 A |
| Classmark | JH: JT: JF: W6: TM2: 3LM |
Data © Centre for Policy on Ageing |
|
| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
| |
|