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Disability benefits that can be life-changing
- Author:
- REES Jo
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 18.8.11, 2011, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Summarises the findings of an exploratory study which investigated how disability living allowance and attendance allowance benefits are used by recipients and the difference these benefits made to the lives of recipients. Group discussions with 24 professionals and advisers; face to face interviews with 15 adult DLA recipients, the parents or carers of 15 child DLA recipients and 15 recipients of AA. The report illustrates how receipt of DLA and AA may be the only factor preventing real poverty, or a move into residential care. For children, DLA is often used to enhance future life chances, such as paying for additional tuition. Practice implications for social worker and managers, and for policy makers are listed.
Older people's participation in disability benefits: targeting, timing and financial wellbeing
- Author:
- ZANTOMIO Francesca
- Publisher:
- Institute for Social and Economic Research
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 44p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Colchester
This report on the targeting, timing and financial wellbeing associated with older people’s participation in UK disability benefits is from the Institute for Social and Economic Research Working Paper series. Comprised of a non-technical summary, introduction, and sections entitled, ‘claiming and receiving Attendance Allowance’ (AA), ‘the British Household Panel Survey data’ (BHPS), ‘ empirical analysis of receipt: targeting and timing’, ‘the impact of AA’ and ‘conclusions’, statistical analyses, relating to 17 waves of data, on the same people over time, are presented. The effectiveness of AA in practice is assessed by measuring, firstly, how responsive benefit receipt is to changes to disability status, secondly, the delays to first receipt and thirdly by comparing later outcomes of those who were, or were not, entered onto the program. Findings showed that “entry is highly responsive to previous changes in disability, and that the program enhances persistently recipients’ financial wellbeing.” But, receipt suffered “considerable delays” - up to 4 years. Also, “evidence of characteristics unrelated to eligibility influencing the assignment mechanism”, such as other people familiar with the benefits system in the household, suggests that the AA cash support system of could be improved for those without such help.
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.
Supporting people: improving services for older people
- Authors:
- HEYWOOD Frances, HARRISON Lynn
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 4(1), February 2001, pp.8-12.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Supporting people was originally promoted as a way of shifting resources out of the confines of 'special' housing towards a more flexible approach focused on people. As far as older people were concerned, it spoke of the desirability of giving more, low-intensity support and of the opportunity for health services to become involved in the commissioning. However, proposals have so far emphasised 'assessment' rather than the empowerment of service users. Argues that change could still happen through Supporting People, and the practical housing support services older people need could be provided through the agency of primary care groups or through an extension of Attendance Allowance. The article concludes by addressing the problem of finding a suitable labour force to give older people support in their homes, and the need for joined-up thinking on earnings restrictions for families living on benefits.
Welfare rights: helping clients with allowances
- Author:
- BATEMAN Neil
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 23.3.00, 2000, p.31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Attendance Allowance helps clients with care related needs and increases revenues of local authorities. Asks why social care professionals are reluctant to help with claims and argues that this is misguided.
Taking up the strain of the Fairey judgement claims
- Author:
- BATEMAN Neil
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 24.9.98, 1998, p.27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author reviews the Fairey judgement and how it will help deaf people claim Disability Living Allowance and Attendance Allowance.
Assessment bypass
- Author:
- BOYD Philip
- Journal article citation:
- Care Weekly, 4.8.94, 1994, p.14.
Explains how older people who wish to enter a residential care home can avoid a social services assessment if they get attendance allowance.
The disability handbook: a handbook on the care needs and mobility requirements likely to arise from various disabilities and chronic illnesses
- Editors:
- AYLWARD Mansel, DEWIS Peter, SCOTT Tim
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Social Security
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 1v.,looseleaf.
- Place of publication:
- London
Compiled by doctors working within the Department of Social Security to help staff who take decisions and advise on Disability Living Allowance and Attendance Allowance.
Disability and poverty in later life
- Authors:
- HANCOCK Ruth, MORCIANO Marcello, PUDNEY Stephen
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 44
- Place of publication:
- London
This report explores the relationship between disability and poverty among the older population. It provides an overview of the current system of disability support for older people which involves both nationally-administered disability benefits of Attendance Allowance and Disability Living Allowance, and local systems of social care provision. It then looks at measuring poverty, emphasising the additional living costs that disabled people face, and the importance of taking disability costs into account when making assessments. The report considers three scenarios for the system of public support within the existing level of government spending which involve changes to levels of mean-testing and reach of support. It casts doubt on some of the suggestions that have been made for improving the targeting of public support for older disabled people. The report concludes that: effective targeting does not necessarily require an extension of means-testing; the present benefit and social care system is reasonably well-targeted, but falls far short of full support for the most severely disabled; there is a case for tailoring the structure of disability benefits more closely to the severity of disability; and there is a need for caution in considering proposals that would scrap national disability benefits in favour of an expansion of local authority social care funding. (Edited publisher abstract)
Projections of demand for and costs of social care for older people in England, 2010 to 2030, under current and alternative funding systems: report of research for the Commission on Funding of Care and Support
- Authors:
- WITTENBERG Raphael, et al
- Publisher:
- Personal Social Services Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 34p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Canterbury
Using the Personal Social Services Research Unit’s (PSSRU) aggregate long-term care projections model and the University of East Anglia’s CARESIM dynamic micro-simulation model this report presents projections of demand for social care and disability benefits for older people (aged 65 and over) in England to 2030 and associated future expenditure. The projections cover both publicly and privately funded social care, including assessments, community-based services and residential care. Long-term health care and disability benefits relevant for care such as the attendance allowance (AA) and disability living allowance (DLA) care component are also included.