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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.
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.
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)
Pension, Disability and Carers Service annual report of quarterly satisfaction monitor 2009/10
- Authors:
- HOWAT Nick, NORDEN Oliver, GARBETT Erica
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 90p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Pension, Disability and Carers Service (PDCS) is an executive agency of the Department for Work and Pensions, and is responsible for delivering a range of age and disability related benefits. A customer survey was launched to monitor satisfaction with the service and to ensure that customer views were taken into account in operational and policy planning. This report presents the findings from the first year of the customer survey, which reflects information gathered in telephone interviews with customers who had contact with the service in the previous 6 months. It describes the methodology used and reports on findings for the PDCS as a whole, the experiences of Pension Service customers, the experiences of Disability and Carers Service customers, and an overview of customer characteristics. One of the key performance measures was overall customer satisfaction with the service, and the survey found that 92% were satisfied with PDCS as a whole in 2009/10.
A world of difference: one million ways to a better life: five years on
- Author:
- HOUSING 21
- Publisher:
- Housing 21
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 27p.
- Place of publication:
- Beaconsfield
For the past 8 years, Housing 21 has adopted a proactive approach in encouraging the uptake of benefits by older people, and in December 2003 published the report, One million ways to a better life. This report follows on from the earlier one. It starts with an overview of the evolving work of Housing 21’s specialist welfare benefits team, and goes on to consider the broader policy context including pensioner poverty initiatives, proposals to reform the social care system and the push to implement the personalisation agenda. This report considers the value of targeted benefits uptake work, particularly in the light of the current recession, and reviews broader government led initiatives over the past 5 years which have sought to address pensioner poverty and simplify access to the benefits system. It also outlines concerns should Disability Living Allowance and Attendance Allowance be withdrawn. The report draws on the views of older people themselves in terms of the difference that extra income from entitlement benefits has made to their quality of life. It includes case studies and evidence from front-line staff and residents which demonstrate the positive contribution that disability benefits make to older people’s wellbeing.
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.