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Welfare rights: topping up the pension
- Author:
- BATEMAN Neil
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 15.4.99, 1999, p.31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at how increases in Income Support this month may boost the amount paid to elderly people.
Welfare rights: a benefit for all ranks
- Author:
- BATEMAN Neil
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 18.2.99, 1999, p.27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at whether War Pensions are worth claiming.
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.
Welfare rights: who will pay the price of bad advice about benefits?
- Author:
- VAUX Gary
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 14.1.99, 1999, p.27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author describes how it is very difficult to persuade the Benefits Agency that residential care can be funded by the benefits system.
Welfare rights: navigating through the maze of home funding
- Author:
- BATEMAN Neil
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 21.1.99, 1999, p.27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Explains how, by using a loophole in the system, clients may be able to use state benefit to help fund their residential care.
Charges for residential accommodation: CRAG amendment no. 10; National Assistance (Sums for Personal Requirements) Regulations 1999
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 150p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Circular making minor amendments to the CRAG guide; setting out the revised personal expenses allowances from 12 April 1999 for people provided with residential accommodation under Part III of the National Assistance Act 1948; and providing a complete replacement of CRAG incorporating amendments 5-9 as well as containing sidelined paragraphs which constitute amendment 10. The covering circulars which accompanied the original guidance and amendments 5-9 are reproduced in a revised annex H to CRAG.
Your rights: a guide to money benefits for older people; 1999-2000
- Author:
- WEST Sally
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 166p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Contains sections on: pensions, widows' benefits and retirement; income related (means-tested) benefits; benefits for people with disabilities; other financial benefits; and further information.
Utilization of formal services during the 10 years after retirement
- Authors:
- OZAWA Martha N., TSENG Huan-yui
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 31(1/2), 1999, pp.3-39.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
As the ageing of the population accelerates in the coming decades, the use of formal services by elderly persons will become an important issue. This article presents the findings of a study on the pattern of utilization of out-of-home services and in-home services among a cohort of American social security beneficiaries in the 10 years after their retirement. The study found that the determinants of the use of these two types of services are distinctly different. The implications of these findings for social work practice are discussed.
Improving public financing for long-term care: the political challenge
- Author:
- FEDER Judith
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Aging and Social Policy, 10(3), 1999, pp.1-6.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
In the USA concern grows about the future of social insurance programmes for the elderly Social Security and Medicare. Discusses the political issues relating to long term care and considers how public financing can be improved.
A global perspective on social security for the aged
- Author:
- DIXON John
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Aging and Social Policy, 11(1), 1999, pp.39-66.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The social security programs that have become widely established in countries around the globe vary greatly in their design features. The difference among the programs invites questions regarding the relative strength of their designs. One hundred and sixty-four programs are assessed on three design dimensions: benefit eligibility, qualifying eligibility criteria, and benefit provision. The analysis shows that the best-designed old-age programs can be found in Western Europe and Australasia.