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| Disability and poverty in later life | | Author(s) | Ruth Hancock, Marcello Morciano, Stephen Pudney |
| Corporate Author | Joseph Rowntree Foundation - JRF; University of Essex |
| Publisher | Joseph Rowntree Foundation - JRF, August 2016 |
| Pages | 44 pp (Inspiring social change; Ref 3205) |
| Source | https://www.jrf.org.uk/report/disability-and-poverty-later... |
| Keywords | Physical disabilities ; Poor elderly ; Poverty ; Social security benefits ; Cost of living. |
| Annotation | The relationship between disability and poverty among the older population is explored, using data from the Family Resources Survey (FRS) and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) to examine the effectiveness of public support for older people with disabilities. This report emphasises the additional living costs that disabled people face, and the importance of taking disability costs into account when making poverty assessments in the older population. The authors comment on Britain's current dual system of public support for older disabled people: central government pays disability benefits - mainly Attendance Allowance (AA) and Disability Living Allowance (DLA), and local authorities manage the provision of social care services. The authors consider alternative directions of reform for the system of public support for older people with disabilities. They suggest that major reductions in the burden of deep poverty could be achieved: first, by matching amounts of benefits paid to the costs of disability more closely; and second, by increasing the reach of the system, particularly among the most disabled, thereby increasing take-up of entitlements and/or improving the quality of initial adjudication of claims. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has supported this project as part of its programme of research and innovative development projects. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150816001 E |
| Classmark | BN: F:W6: W6: JH: J3C |
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