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The evolution of disability benefits in the UK
— re-weighting the basket | | Author(s) | Tania Burchardt |
| Corporate Author | ESRC Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion - CASE, Suntory-Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines - STICERD, London School of Economics and Political Science |
| Publisher | STICERD, London, 1999 |
| Pages | 26 pp (CASEpaper 26) |
| Source | Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. |
| Keywords | Disablement benefit ; Social policy. |
| Annotation | This paper attempts to clarify the significance of the New Labour reforms to disability benefits by setting them in the context of their development since the early 1970s. The first section charts the creation, extension and subsequent series of reforms of disability benefits, and looks at trends in overall expenditure. The following section details the latest reforms, and raises some questions about the extent to which they are likely to achieve their stated objectives. These two sections are brought together using hypothetical case studies to illustrate the changing balance between different kinds of benefit - the "benefit basket" - for disabled people, from before the introduction of specific disability benefits through to the system as it might be in 2001. The paper concludes with an assessment of the extent to which the latest reforms represent a continuation of the evolution of disability benefits or a break with the past. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990707210 B |
| Classmark | JHK: TM2 |
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