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Welfare rights: comparing chalk and cheese does nothing to end poverty
- Author:
- BURGESS Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 14.5.98, 1998, p.29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Argues the sub-text of the government's Welfare Reform Files is the idea that public spending on social security is much too high.
Are we being made to pay the benefits bill twice over?
- Author:
- BURGESS Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 30.4.98, 1998, p.29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Highlights the fact that the current debate on welfare reform is dominated by the rising benefits bill, whilst ignoring the figures for increased contributions to pay for them.
Welfare rights
- Author:
- BURGESS Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 16.4.98, 1998, p.23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Asks whether the rising benefit bill is a sign of failure, or of growing success in giving those who need support the help they are entitled to.
Poorest pay high price for benefit reforms
- Author:
- BURGESS Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 2.4.98, 1998, p.29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Asks whether the Labour government's continuing welfare reforms are redefining the role of the welfare state.
Social security
- Author:
- BURGESS Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, April 1997, pp.24-26.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
Disability Living Allowance is the most important financial help disabled people receive from the state. But people with mental health problems often face a struggle to get the benefits they are entitled to. This article examines research on the lifestyles of Income Support claimants and ways of helping them off benefits and into work - the major social security preoccupation of all political parties.
Social security
- Author:
- BURGESS Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, 2, October 1996, pp.19-22.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
Political rhetoric often suggests that people will try to get away with deceiving the Benefits Agency if they can, and that many people who receive Income Support have no interest in finding work. But are the stereotypes accurate? Examines claimant's reporting of - or failure to report - changes in their circumstances, and, whether or not people will take a job even if their financial circumstances will worsen as a result.
Social security
- Author:
- BURGESS Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, 1, April 1996, pp.22-24.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
Looks at research into the evaluation of Disability Living Allowance and Attendance Allowance, which provides a welcome new angle on the important question why so many people fail to claim benefits to which they are entitled.
Square pegs in round holes
- Author:
- BURGESS Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 13.1.94, 1994, p.25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Examines the likely impact of the new incapacity benefit which will be introduced in April 1995.
Cash versus care
- Author:
- BURGESS Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 6.5.93, 1993, p.29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Problems of arranging care for elderly people in their own home or in private residential accommodation exist when there is an emphasis on who pays what. Examines the dilemma in the light of new legislation.
Home economics
- Author:
- BURGESS Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 22.4.93, 1993, p.9.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
From this month, social workers have to advise clients entering residential care on benefit changes. Shows what costs are involved.