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Assessing the distributional impact of reforms to disability benefits for older people in the UK
— implications of alternative measures of income and disability costs | | Author(s) | Ruth Hancock, Stephen Pudney |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 34, no 2, February 2014 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, February 2014 |
| Pages | pp 232-257 |
| Source | journals.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Disablement benefit ; Income [older people] ; Costs ; Social welfare ; Social policy ; Measurement ; United Kingdom. |
| Annotation | The UK Attendance Allowance (AA) and Disability Living Allowance (DLA) are non-means-tested benefits paid to many disabled people aged 65+. They may also increase entitlements to means-tested benefits through the Severe Disability Premium (SDP). The authors investigate proposed reforms involving withdrawal of AA/DLA. The authors demonstrate that despite the present non-means-tested nature of AA/DLA, withdrawal would affect mainly low-income people, whose losses could be mitigated if SDP were retained at its current or a higher level. The authors also show the importance of the method of describing distributional impacts, and that use of inappropriate income definitions in official reports has overstated recipients' capacity to absorb the loss of these benefits. (RH) |
| Accession Number | CPA-150514003 A |
| Classmark | JHK: JF: WC: TY: TM2: 3R: 8 |
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