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Review of international evidence on the cost of disability
- Authors:
- STAPLETON David, PROTIK Ali, STONE Christal
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 53p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Allowance programmes are a conceptually appealing way to help people with disabilities and their families pay for the goods and services that such individuals often need. This report examines how the international literature on the extra costs of disability could contribute to an assessment of the Disability Living Allowance (DLA) and Attendance Allowance (AA) programmes in the UK The report presents rigorous evidence from a U.S. demonstration, that allowances can improve the lives of people with disabilities, relative to programmes that deliver agency services financed directly by the government. It also finds that, of all definitions of the extra cost of disability encountered in the literature, the 'expenditure equivalence' definition – the amount of additional income a person with a disability would require to achieve the same standard of living as a similar person without a disability - stands out as the most salient for assessing the adequacy of allowances. The report finds very little evidence from either programmes in other countries, or the research literature to support an assessment of allowance amounts in the UK programmes. A few studies, including a UK study, use the expenditure equivalence definition to demonstrate that the extra cost of disability can be very high, but their findings are not directly applicable to DLA and AA. The approach of these studies could potentially be applied to analysis of existing or new UK data in support of an assessment of the two programmes.
Streamlining the assessment of attendance allowance applications with social care assessment: an evaluation of two London pilots
- Author:
- HILTON John
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 32p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Under the auspices of the LinkAge Plus programme, the Department for Work and Pensions commissioned two London boroughs to pilot a joining up of the process of applying for Attendance Allowance with the assessment for social care support. 'Streamlined assessment' is based on the principle that customers should provide information only once to access more than one service and that there is scope to adopt a customer-centred approach to service provision. This evaluation looks at the experiences and learning from the pilots.
Disability benefits and paying for care
- Authors:
- BERTHOUD Richard, HANCOCK Ruth
- Publisher:
- University of Essex. Institute for Social and Economic Research
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 15p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Colchester
The Attendance Allowance (AA) and the Disability Living Allowance care component (DLAc) are paid to elderly and/or disabled people who need help with activities of daily living Together, these benefits cost £9.2 billion per year Since the need for care is the main criterion entitling people to claim, one important question is whether they receive (enough) care. The Wanless review recommended integrating support for care costs from these disability benefits into the care system to improve targeting of resources. This paper discusses the impact of AA/DLAc on the well-being of disabled adults, and assesses the likely advantages, and disadvantages, of a possible reallocation of resources.