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The Australian age pension
— has targeting gone too far? | | Author(s) | Sheila Shaver |
| Corporate Author | Social Policy Research Centre - SPRC, University of New South Wales |
| Journal title | SPRC Reports and Proceedings, no 134, February 1997 |
| Publisher | University of New South Wales, Sydney, February 1997 |
| Pages | pp 103-124 |
| Keywords | Pensions ; Means testing ; Australia. |
| Annotation | Australia's selective social security system has been held up as a model for policy directions in other countries. This discussion on universality and selectivity of income support looks closely at the nature of the tests on income and assets used to target income support for older people. Showing what these entail in practical terms, the author examines the peculiar policy challenges of means testing that aims not to restrict benefits to those with the fewest non-pension resources, but to restrict pension expenditure on those having the most - referred to in Australia as the `tall poppies' test. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981119240 B |
| Classmark | JJ: JF4C: 7YA |
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