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New formula prompts council campaign for under-claimers
- Author:
- WAUX Gary
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 9.7.98, 1998, p.29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
While the government talks tough on benefit fraud, the author finds that councils have been given a new incentive to root out those who don't claim enough.
Your rights 2005-06: a guide to money benefits for older people
- Author:
- WEST Sally
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 204p.
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- 33rd
The book is divided into five parts, giving details about: pensions and retirement; financial help for people on a low income, including Pension Credit; benefits for disabled people and their carers; types of financial help, including the system for paying for care; and sources of national and local help.
Retirement realities: shocked and struggling; attitudes of older consumers to financial choices in retirement
- Author:
- GAY Meg
- Publisher:
- National Consumer Council
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 12p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Reveals that many people entering retirement feel let down and disillusioned by the state pension. Those who tried to save extra for their retirement feel powerless because their pensions and investments haven’t lived up to their promises. Only those lucky enough to have a final-salary pension feel really confident about their future. The answer to this depressing state of affairs, says the report, is to give everyone the right to a basic state ‘citizen’ pension, so they can be sure of an adequate, secure and simple base for their retirement finances. Current rules are outdated, complex and unfair - and fail those who need the security of the state pension most.
CAB campaigns for benefit take-up among older people
- Author:
- CULLEN Lesley.
- Publisher:
- Citizens Advice Bureau
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 34p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report is based on a survey of benefit take up among older people organised by Citizens Advice Bureaux. Over 100 Bureaux provided evidence on the campaigns and the outcomes achieved. . The report explains why such takeup initiatives are needed, and summarises effective ways of organising campaigns.
Preparations for retirement in Sweden: migrant perspectives
- Authors:
- HARRYSSON Lars, MONTESINO Norma, WERNER Erika
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 36(4), 2016, pp.531-550.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Migrants as a group are recognised as being at risk of receiving low retirement pensions. Income over a lifetime is the principle for calculating pension rights. The authors have interviewed a group of migrants about their retirement preparations. The results show that there are obstacles that obstruct migrants from entering the Swedish labour market, which will greatly influence future pension rights. There are various lock-in effects that isolate migrants from the labour market and thus affect their present and future financial situation. Examples are labour market policy activities and that the minimum level pensions have mobility restrictions. These trajectories are set in perspective to Nancy Fraser’s reasoning on justice in a transnational setting and Yeheskel Hasenfeld’s reflections on people processing. An important implication from the authors' findings is the need to explore ways to include a group that is currently excluded from the labour market, hence adequate retirement income protection. (Edited publisher abstract)
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.
Older people in law and society
- Author:
- HERRING Jonathan
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 368p.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
The author examines both the legal rights and responsibilities of older people. Although the focus is particularly on the legal issues surrounding old age it draws extensively on the gerentological, philosophical, sociological, and medical literature surrounding the subject. Among the key issues included are: ageing and law: ageism and age discrimination; mental capacity; care and older people; elder abuse; pensions and benefits for older people; grandparents; the health care of older people; and inheritance issues. The author examines the complex social and legal issues these topics can raise. He believes the British social and legal systems let older people down in many ways and makes proposals as to how these could be improved, and arguing that the devaluation of ageing and the social exclusion of older people not only impoverishes the lives of older people, but of society generally.