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No benefit in growing old: the evidence of elderly CAB clients in Scotland
- Author:
- CITIZEN'S ADVICE SCOTLAND
- Publisher:
- Citizen's Advice Scotland
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 41p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Report looking at the take-up of social security benefits by older people, and the reasons for not claiming entitlements.
Just for the record: findings from the pension benefit outreach project 2007
- Authors:
- TRUST HOUSING ASSOCIATION, HANOVER SCOTLAND, BIELD HOUSING ASSOCIATION
- Publisher:
- Trust Housing Association Ltd
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 21p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
The Pension Benefit Outreach Project was a project which tackled the acute problem of poor take-up of pension and other benefits by older people in the Black Minority and Ethnic (BME) Communities. The project was created through a partnership between Trust, Hanover (Scotland) and Bield Housing Associations and their existing Equal Opportunities Programme. The project received external funding for 18 months and commenced in 2005 and involved people from the Pakistani, Indian and Chinese communities and also people of Turkish, African, Iranian and Arab origin. The main purpose of this project was to help individual BME older people to understand what benefits and allowances they are entitled to and to help them receive these. The results of the project are reported. The success of this project underlined the importance of active outreach work.
Evaluation of the intensive activity period 50plus pilots
- Authors:
- ATKINSON Joan, et al
- Publisher:
- Corporate Document Services; Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 163p.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
This research provides qualitative evidence towards the evaluation of the IAP 50 Plus Pilots, which trialled the benefits of making participation in the Intensive Activity Period mandatory for New Deal 25 plus participants aged between 50 and 59. The research focused on four of the 14 pilot sites, and was principally based on face-to-face interviews involving 75 staff, 23 providers and 182 participants, in two waves, in spring 2005 and winter 2005/06. The research confirmed that the pilots were delivered without undue difficulty largely because, with quite small numbers of customers involved, they represented only a fairly modest extension of existing practice, required no significant change in the organisation or provision, and drew on an experienced cadre of NDPAs and IAP providers.
Keep warm keep well: a winter guide
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 32p.,list of orgs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Advisory booklet on keeping warm in winter, heating one's home efficiently, benefits payable to help with heating or home improvement and coping with health problems such as flu and hypothermia.
Tightropes and tripwires: New Labour's proposals and means-testing in old age
- Authors:
- RAKE Katherine, FALKINGHAM Jane, EVANS Martin
- Publisher:
- London School of Economics. Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 25p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This paper analyses the proposals contained in the Government Green Paper,'A New Contract for Welfare: Partnership in Pensions' for low paid workers and the potential of the new rules to guarantee a decent income in old age. It discusses the general principles inherent in the design of the British pension system, analyses the balance of these principles as represented in the Green Paper, and examines how the Government's proposals protect individuals from a means-tested old age. Identifies a number of design faults that could extend means-testing to a larger number of low paid workers. The paper then models lifetime incomes for a range of hypothetical, low-income individuals and their partners under the Green Paper's proposals.
Residential care: will social security still pay?
- Authors:
- WISTOW Gerald, HENWOOD Melanie
- Publisher:
- University of Leeds. Nuffield Institute for Health
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 17p.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
National assistance (sums for personal requirements) regulations 1994
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 3p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Circular setting out revised personal expenses allowances from 11 April 1994 for people provided with residential accommodation under Part III of the National Assistance Act 1948.
The impact of the social security system on the movement of elderly people into different types of residential care: report of a study in two areas; discussion and conclusions
- Author:
- UNIVERSITY OF YORK. Social Policy Research Unit
- Publisher:
- University of York
- Publication year:
- 1984
- Place of publication:
- York
Advice for carers: a practical guide
- Author:
- AGE UK
- Publisher:
- Age UK
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 43p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This guide provides advice for carers on the support that is available for them. It includes practical advice on: the benefits that are available for carers; disability benefits for the person being cared for and how to claim them; how to arrange flexible working hours; and how to organise respite care. It also includes information on the emotional side of caring and the impact it may have on the carer’s health and social life. Advice is also given on being actively involved in the care of someone who lives a long way away. As far as possible, the information given in this guide is applicable across the UK.
Older workers: statistical information booklet: quarter two 2007
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 23p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Baseline year – 1997 for lone parents, the over-50s and the lowest qualified; 1998 for people with disabilities and ethnic minority people. The employment rates for all these groups were lower than the national employment rate. Between 1997 and 2006, there has been a rise in the employment rates of the over-50s from 64.7 per cent to 70.9 per cent and of lone parents from 45.3 per cent to 56.6 per cent. The employment rate for the lowest qualified has fallen from 51.7 per cent in 1997 to 49.4 per cent in 2006.