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The myth of the woopie?
— incomes, the elderly and targeting welfare | | Author(s) | Jane Falkingham, Christina Victor |
| Corporate Author | Welfare State Programme, Suntory-Toyota International Centre for Economics & Related Disciplines - STICERD, London School of Economics and Political Science |
| Publisher | Suntory-Toyota International Centre for Economics & Related Disciplines, London, 1991 |
| Pages | 34 pp (Welfare State Programme discussion paper, WSP/55) |
| Source | Welfare State Programme Suntory-Toyota International Centre for Economics, LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. |
| Keywords | Economic status [elderly] ; Income [older people] ; Evaluation ; Social security benefits. |
| Annotation | The idea of a new group of Woopies (Well Off Older Persons) has been used as justification for discussion on the introduction of means-testing for certain benefits directed at the older population. This paper challenges the view that the majority of older people are well-off and less in need of state support than was the case in the past. It traces the evolution of the Woopie using published data and then examines the socio-economic characteristics of such a group. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-910226007 B |
| Classmark | F:W: JF: 4C: JH |
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