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Navigating the maze
- Author:
- BATEMAN Neil
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 6.12.01, 2001, p.42.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Explains how to find out who qualifies for the minimum income guarantee for pensioners.
Pension policy in EU25 and its possible impact on elderly poverty: second report: revised July 2006
- Authors:
- ZAIDID Ashgar, MARIN Bernd, FUCHS Michael
- Publisher:
- European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 109p.
- Place of publication:
- Vienna
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
This report provides insights into how pension reforms may impact on retirement incomes and risk of poverty among future pensioners. One common trend is that the generosity of pension benefits drawn from the public pension systems is on the decline. Moreover, reforms have changed in most instances the nature of pension provision from defined-benefit type provision to defined-contribution type provision. In general, this type of change shifts more pension risks towards the generation of current working age individuals, and also results in a more restrictive possibilities of redistribution to lower income individuals. In turn, it is likely that more and more pensioners will fall back on the means-tested social assistance benefits (where available) or else experience poverty.
Ensuring a minimum: social security reform and women
- Author:
- HERD Pamela
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 45(1), February 2005, pp.12-25.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The potential effects of implementing three different minimum benefits in Social Security, which have accompanied proposals to privatize the program and reform family benefits, are examined in relation to the adequacy of benefits for women reaching age 62 between 2020 and 2030. The 1992 Health and Retirement Study is used to conduct a simplified microsimulation. The minimum benefit proposal accompanying privatization proposals, which requires 40 earnings years for a poverty level benefit, fails to cover significant numbers of vulnerable women. The elimination of spousal benefits, criticized for being outdated and regressive, helps offset the costs of more generous minimum benefits, such as those that require residency or 10 earnings years for eligibility. Noncontributory benefits distributed based on marital status are not as effective at protecting poorer women, as well as a new generation of women that is less likely to be married, than are minimum benefits where eligibility is tied to U.S. residency or simply Social Security eligibility.
Tackling pensioner poverty: encouraging take-up of entitlements; report by the Comptroller and Auditor General
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. National Audit Office
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 59p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report examines what the Department for Work and Pensions both on their own, and with a range of other organisations, have done to tackle pensioner poverty by encouraging pensioners to take up the benefits to which they are entitled, but which, for a variety of reasons, they do not receive. The authors looked specifically at the barriers to take-up and how successful Government has been in overcoming the barriers, and what more can be done. This report is part of a programme of work examining aspects of government services for older people.
Care and state pension reform: interactions between state pension and long-term care reforms: a summary of further findings
- Authors:
- ADAMS John, et al
- Publisher:
- Pensions Policy Institute
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Pagination:
- 34
- Place of publication:
- London
This report examines the costs and trade-offs of reforming long-term care funding for older people in England, and identifies those who stand to gain and lose from a range of proposed reforms. It sets out findings from existing analyses of potential expansion of eligibility, subject to the current means test, for LA-funded home care for older people; some revenue raising options to fund extra public spending on long-term care for older people; and the likelihood of different ‘triple lock’ outcomes and their effects on state pension uprating and on how much an older person may be required to pay towards their home care. It also reports new analyses of some options for reforming long-term care funding, including: a £72k lifetime cap on care costs; suggestions for a cap on care costs which covers daily living costs in care homes as well as care costs; free personal care as implemented in Scotland; and the Conservative Party manifesto suggestion of including housing wealth in the means test for home care. The findings are based on pension and long-term care simulation models. The research has been carried out by the Care and State Pension Reforms (CASPeR) team, a collaborative project between the Pensions Policy Institute, the University of East Anglia and the London School of Economics. (Edited publisher abstract)
Gender, pensions and the lifecourse: how pensions need to adapt to changing family forms
- Author:
- GINN Jay
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 144p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Increased life expectancy, growing public awareness of private pension risks and declining state pensions have all fuelled a sense of crisis in current pension policy. An emerging consensus sees British pension policy as unravelling. Yet the gender impact of expanding private pension provision and relying increasingly on means-testing has been largely overlooked. This book examines how shifting gender relations in successive cohorts interact with pension reforms, raising questions about distributional equity in the context of gendered familial responsibilities. New patterns of pension advantage are emerging, influenced by partnership status, parenthood, class and ethnicity.
The pension service: delivering benefits to older people?
- Author:
- AGULNIK Phil
- Journal article citation:
- Benefits, 11(2), June 2003, pp.99-104.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
Since April 2002 benefits for older people have been administered by the Pension Service, an executive agency of the Department for Work and Pensions. Its aims are to improve service delivery, so that pensioners can claim their entitlements as easily as possible, and to increase take-up of means-tested benefits. However, the move to dealing with claims over the telephone will only make it marginally easier to navigate the benefits system: pensioners will still need to go elsewhere to claim disability and housing-related benefits. And the history of attempts to increase take-up suggests that some pensioners will always be resistant to claiming means tested benefits. This said, the introduction of Pension Credit in October 2003 will extend means-testing to around half of all pensioners, and it is possible that this will reduce stigma and encourage benefit take-up by the poorest pensioners.
Pensions not poor relief: The National Pensioners ConventionÆs contribution to the government's pension review
- Authors:
- LYNES Tony, HARRIS Joe
- Publisher:
- National Pensioners Convention
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 40p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The National Pensioners Convention agrees with the government that the present State pension will not provide an adequate retirement income. A second pension of some kind will be necessary even though there will always be room for a third tier of voluntary savings.
The challenge of intra-Union and in-migration to 'social Europe'
- Author:
- WARNES Anthony M.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 28(1), January 2002, pp.135-152.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Examines with particular reference to international migrants the contradictions between rhetoric and reality in eligibility to and the availability of health and welfare entitlements across the European Union. On the hand, the Brussels Commissions laud the existence of a 'social Europe', which should exist as a logical extension of the promotion of the free movement of labour. On the other hand, the member states will not cede control of social spending and specifically social security administration. Migrants within and into the EU continue to face 'structured disadvantage' in income protection and accessibility to health and social care, especially when retired or sick, frail or disabled. Concludes with recommendations for the advocacy organisations that seek to end this structured disadvantage about the most likely ways in which policies can be changed.
"Nar alle revalideringsmuligheder ma anses for udtomte"
- Author:
- ANDERSEN Tine
- Journal article citation:
- Nordisk Sosialt Arbeid, 17(4), 1997, pp.231-235.
- Publisher:
- Universitetsforlaget AS
Looks at how the Danish rehabilitation institutions have been experiencing problems. Suggests a radical solution to these problems.