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Alarm over allowances
- Author:
- HUNTER Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 17.9.09, 2009, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Government proposals in the green paper 'Shaping the future of care together' have presented a risk that the attendance allowance could be integrated into the general social care system. This article reports on the opposition from disability user groups who believe the attendance allowance should remain a separate non-means tested benefit. A short case study showing the benefits the allowance provided one woman with a visual impairment is included.
The impact of disability benefits: a feasibility study
- Author:
- BERTHOUD Richard
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 44p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
An introduction giving the background on the benefits designed to meet disabled people's extra costs is followed by an overview of Disability Living Allowance and Attendance Allowance, a chapter asking who benefits, and chapters on take-up, claims and adjudication; impacts on spending and outcomes; counterfactuals; data requirements; and the research plan. Information is given in tables and figures.
Participation in disability benefit programmes: a partial identification analysis of the British Attendance Allowance system
- Author:
- PUDNEY Stephen
- Publisher:
- University of Essex. Institute for Social and Economic Research
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 40p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Colchester
In the UK, state support for older people with disabilities comes in two forms: means tested help with the costs of specific care services arranged by local authorities and non-means tested cash benefits, which include the system of Attendance Allowance (AA). This study examines the workings of the AA system with the aim of understanding better the problems of targeting raised by the failure of some disabled pensioners to bring forward potentially successful AA claims. The empirical analysis combines household-level survey data on family circumstances, disability and receipt of AA with aggregate administrative data on the average success rate for AA claims, to analyse the factors influencing individuals' probabilities of claiming and their chances of success. There are two main findings: the probability of an individual pensioner making a claim for AA appears to rise strongly with his or her degree of disability, irrespective of personal and household circumstances. Second, there is evidence of a substantial volume (possibly 30% or more of the over-65 household population) of unpursued but potentially successful AA claims.