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Helping people to work: easy read
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 36p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Government has introduced benefit reforms that permit the disabled, single mothers and older people claimants to try out work, and to return to protected levels of benefit more easily if a job doesn’t work out. For those who are considered more work ready such changes make a real difference. This easy read book sets out their rights and obligations. However, fears persist among claimants that they may fall outside of the protection afforded by such rules or that their continued incapacity might be drawn into question if they try out work.
Poverty in Europe in the mid-1990
- Authors:
- SAINSBURY Diane, MORISSENS Ann
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of European Social Policy, 12(4), November 2002, pp.307-327.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Examines the income maintenance policies of members of the European Union and three candidate countries: Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. It looks at the effectiveness of these policies and especially means tested safety nets in alleviating poverty. The incidence of poverty was analysed based on the EU poverty line. Results found that during the 1990s the poverty rates increased in most countries and for vulnerable groups. Mean-tested benefits assumed growing importance in alleviating poverty and several countries have improved their schemes to guarantee a minimum income. At the same time reforms have produced diversity in the safety nets across Europe.
Geographic patterns of change of benefit claimants
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Using data from the Department for Work and Pensions, this study explores changing patterns of claim rates of Income Support (IS) and income-based Job Seeker's Allowance (JSA-IB) in England between 1995 and 2000. It carries forward earlier work using administrative data and demonstrates the power of such data in measuring changing fortunes over time for different area units and claimant groups throughout England. Following the recession in the early 1990s the British economy enjoyed a period of sustained economic growth. The impact of this recovery has, however, not been shared equally by different groups, whether these are defined geographically by area, or by claimant group category. The study looked at changes in claim rates by claimant characteristics (lone parents, unemployed, 'disabled and others', those aged 60 and over, families with children, and claimants who are in their fifties) and by location (Government Offices for the Regions (GOs), local authority districts and wards).
The minimum wage and social assistance in the member states of the European Union
- Author:
- STROPNIK Nada
- Journal article citation:
- Revija Za Socijalnu Politiku Journal of Social Policy, 8(1), 2001, pp.35-51.
- Publisher:
- University of Zagreb
This article offers a comparative overview of the legal regulation of the minimum wage in the European Union. The author provides and analyses data on the following elements of the right to social assistance in member countries of the European Union: persons who have the right to social assistance in connection with their citizenship, residence, age, etc.; revenues which are taken into account when determining the amount of social assistance; the application of the principle of subsidiarity in determining the right to social assistance; the manner of establishing the basic amount of the minimum wage; the duration of the right to social assistance; the valorisation of the guaranteed minimum wage; the connection between the right to financial assistance and the measures of an active employment policy; other rights associated with the guarantee of a minimum wage; and social care for the elderly and social care for single parents.
Redistribution by tax break
- Author:
- McCURRY Patrick
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 18.3.99, 1999, p.9.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author surveys the Budget's impact on the poor.
Growing together or growing apart?: geographic patterns of change of Income Support and income-based Jobseeker's Allowance claimants in England between 1995 and 2000
- Authors:
- EVANS Martin, et al
- Publisher:
- Policy Press,|Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 95p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
This report analyses the changing patterns of income deprivation in England between 1995 and 2000. Drawing on data from the Department for Work and Pensions on claimants of Income Support and Jobseeker’s Allowance, it explores the changes that have occurred in this time period for different types of families in England. The findings are broken down by Government Office Regions, local authorities and wards. The report asks the following questions about the claimant families: who are they and how many are families with children, older unemployed, single people etc?; where are they? and are the focused in specific geographic locations?; and how has the profile of income deprivation changed over time, in numbers, composition and concentration?
Welfare trends in Sweden
- Authors:
- PALME Joakim, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of European Social Policy, 12(4), November 2002, pp.329-346.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article looks at the development of welfare in the 1990s in Sweden. The article investigates the effects for the welfare of individual members of society and asks what happened to the welfare state model. Figures on individual living conditions are taken from primary analyses of Statistics Sweden's Surveys of living conditions. The article also discusses differences between gender, age groups and the situation of disadvantaged groups. The analysis focuses on work, economic circumstances and health, though in the discussion of disadvantaged groups additional data on more dimensions of welfare is included.
Social policy and the labour market
- Editors:
- DE JONG Philip R., MARMOR Theodore R.
- Publisher:
- Ashgate
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 733p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Joins micro-economic analysis of social insurance and welfare systems with broader political descriptions of social policy. Gives a sense of the fundamental problem of finding a social welfare system that fits specific economic and cultural conditions. Includes papers on: the Nordic welfare model and the European Union; convergence and divergence in the evolution of the welfare state; private provision of social security; the case for equivalent taxation of social security benefits in the European Union; an international analysis of retirement and economic development; disability and rehabilitation; unemployment insurance; social assistance in comparative perspective; lone mothers, policy and employment in twenty countries; Swedish single parents and social security; social security in Poland in a period of transition; social security reform in the Czech Republic; social security for disabled people in South Africa; China's social security in the context of the national distribution system; and integratability of social welfare systems for a unified Korea.
Inlogov informs on poverty
- Authors:
- GRAYSON Lesley, HOBSON Margaret, SMITH Barbara, comps
- Publisher:
- University of Birmingham. Institute of Local Government Studies
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 171p.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
This issue addresses poverty from the perspective of low incomes, covering both low pay and support through the social security system. The publication is divided into 7 main sections which cover perceptions of poverty; people in poverty; poor work and poor pay; living on a low income; social security benefits; anti-poverty strategies; and finally discusses the developing agenda for poverty in the 1990's.