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Assessing the distributional impact of reforms to disability benefits for older people in the UK: implications of alternative measures of income and disability costs
- Authors:
- HANCOCK Ruth, PUDNEY Stephen
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 34(2), 2014, pp.232-257.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
The UK Attendance Allowance (AA) and Disability Living Allowance (DLA) are non-means-tested benefits paid to many disabled people aged 65 + . They may also increase entitlements to means-tested benefits through the Severe Disability Premium (SDP). The authors investigate proposed reforms involving withdrawal of AA/DLA. Despite their present non-means-tested nature, they show that withdrawal would affect mainly low-income people, whose losses could be mitigated if SDP were retained at its current or a higher level. The authors also show the importance of the method of describing distributional impacts and that use of inappropriate income definitions in official reports has overstated recipients' capacity to absorb the loss of these benefits. (Publisher abstract)
Long-term care funding in England: an analysis of the costs and distributional effects of potential reforms
- Authors:
- HANCOCK Ruth, et al
- Publisher:
- University of Kent. Personal Social Services Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 13
- Place of publication:
- Canterbury
This paper examines projected costs and distributional effects of Government plans to reform the systems that determine how much the state contributes to people's long-term care costs compared with the current system. It also contrasts these costs and distributional effects with the central recommendation of the Commission on the Funding of Care and Support (Dilnot Commission) which was set up by the Government and reported in 2011. Two variants on the Government’s plans which would give additional help to recipients of residential care with capital below the proposed higher capital threshold are also considered. (Edited publisher abstract)
Paying for long-term care for older people in the UK: modelling the costs and distributional effects of a range of options
- Authors:
- HANCOCK Ruth, et al
- Publisher:
- Personal Social Services Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 115p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Canterbury
How best to finance long-term care has been the subject of considerable recent debate in the UK. The Government established the first Royal Commission in many years, to review the financing of long-term care and to make recommendations about future financing. Its key recommendation was that the nursing and personal care components of the fees of care homes and home-based personal care should be met by the state, without a means test. In England, Wales and Northern Ireland, means-testing has now been removed for nursing but not personal care. Scotland has made both nursing and personal care free of charge. Much of the current debate concerns whether personal care should be made free of charge throughout the UK. There are, however, other ways in which the system for funding long-term care could be reformed. There is a need for a more comprehensive range of options to be considered, informed by the latest policy developments in the UK and drawing on experience in other European countries. The study aims to project expenditure on long term care services for older people under a wide range of options for reforming the current system. It will provide for each option, projections to 2050 of: the total cost of long-term care for older people, in absolute terms and as a proportion of Gross Domestic Product; its breakdown between public and private sources, and within the public sector; how the costs borne by service users vary by the level of their income and wealth; the sensitivity of projections to assumptions about future numbers of older people, dependency levels, costs of formal care, supply of informal care and future demand for formal care.