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The unwanted generation
- Author:
- LYNES Tony
- Publisher:
- National Pensioners Convention
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 26p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Response by the National Pensioners Convention to the government's green paper "A new contract for welfare; partnership in pensions".
New ideas about old age security: toward sustainable pension systems in the 21st century
- Authors:
- HOLZMANN Robert, STIGLITZ Joseph E
- Publisher:
- World Bank
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 511p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Washington, DC
Policy makers across the globe are struggling to adapt their pension systems to the reality of ageing populations, and tightening budgets. The World Bank is actively engaged in supporting these policy makers, from helping them to identify the economic and demographic challenges facing their countries to highlighting potential policy responses and providing implementation support. This book examines the implementation of the "multipillar" approach advocated by the Bank, focuses on the nature of a mandatory savings pillar and addresses such technical topics as coverage, distributive effects, administrative costs, and annuitisation.
A new contract for welfare: partnership in pensions; presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Social Security by Command of Her Majesty, December 1998
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Social Security
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 126p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Green Paper on pensions, containing sections on: the present position; the current pension system; the need for change; a new framework for pensions; help for today's poorest pensioners; the future of state second pensions; stakeholder pensions; strengthening the framework for occupational pension schemes; increasing the level of savings; education and trust; improved service delivery and the wider agenda for older people; and financial implications.
Analysis of the future need and demand for appropriate models of accommodation and associated services for older people
- Author:
- PARIS Chris
- Publisher:
- Northern Ireland Housing Executive
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 99p.
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
This reports analysed demographic and policy trends to support informed decision making regarding future housing need assessment for older people; collation of information on the existing supply of accommodation for elderly people in relation to the distribution of the elderly population for Northern Ireland. The review examined issues relating to older persons’ housing and care needs: housing arrangements and preferences, independence and control; income, poverty and wealth; health and well-being; and neighbourhood and location. It identified strong evidence that older people wish to maintain independence in their own homes for as long as possible. In many instances, this would require at most small levels of assistive input. Some older people, however, prefer other options: moving to more suitable mainstream accommodation or accommodation combined with care. Research indicated that access to suitable housing is not perceived as a major problem by older people, but they are more concerned about the fear of crime, keeping warm in winter, loneliness, making ends meet (especially ‘asset rich, income poor’ households) and isolation.
From welfare to well-being - planning for an ageing society
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Britain has not yet got to grips with the implications of living in an ageing society where, for the first time, older people will outnumber young people. In other countries in Europe, older people are valued and celebrated as an asset to society. In the UK, age discrimination is still built into the fabric of society, and the ageing of the population is often portrayed in negative terms in the media and at a policy level. Britain is still locked into a traditional welfare-rationing approach for people on low incomes, rather than a broader approach that applies to older people across all economic groups as citizens and consumers, and which draws in the private sector as partners. Public services still focus, by and large, on the most vulnerable older people at times of crisis (some fifteen per cent of the older population) rather than adopting an approach which enables the wider older population (the other eighty-five per cent) to remain independent for as long as possible and live their lives to the full. Many older people are still excluded from universal services. Except in Wales, there is no overall government vision and strategy to plan for an ageing society.
Sharing in the nation's prosperity?: pensioner poverty in Britain
- Authors:
- GOODMAN Alissa, MYCK Michal, SHEPARD Andrew
- Publisher:
- Institute for Fiscal Studies
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 54p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
The government has redistributed significant resources towards pensioners with the aim of ‘abolishing pensioner poverty’. The overall 1997–2004 policy package directed at changing pensioner incomes increases them in total by about £7 billion per year, of which about £4.1 billion should have fed through to the latest poverty statistics. Resulting falls in pensioner poverty, measured in relative terms, have not been as substantial as some might have expected. The main reason why relative poverty has not fallen further is that the median income across the whole population has risen, and thus so has the relative poverty line.
Spotlight on womenÆs pensions: how the pension system fails women
- Author:
- CURTIS Zelda
- Publisher:
- National Pensioners Convention
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 12p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Women make up the majority of pensioners. They also make up the majority of poorest pensioners. Therefore in examining the government's policy it is essential to take gender into account. Contents include: women, work, caring and pensions; membership of occupational pensions; stakeholder pensions; income.
The pension credit: the National Pensioners Convention's response to the government's consultation paper
- Author:
- LYNES Tony
- Publisher:
- National Pensioners Convention
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 22p.
- Place of publication:
- London
From 2003 under the government's proposals, means tested income support for pensioners known as the Minimum Income Guarantee (MIG) will be renamed as the pension credit. As part of the new system the consultation paper proposed a savings credit changing the way in which entitlements are calculated.
Backing the basic: what MPs think about pensions policy
- Editor:
- LYNES Tony
- Publisher:
- National Pensioners Convention
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 17p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Reports on conclusions of three House of Commons select committee reports published in June-July 2000 and evidence on pensioner poverty submitted to the Social Security Committee by the National Pensioners Convention.
Working together on care and repair: a strategic view
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive Development Department
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office/Scotland. Scottish Executive Development Department
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 32p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Care and repair helps people to live independently in the community, complementing community care services. It is a service which supports many national and local objectives in housing, health and social care. Crucially it is highly valued by service users, demonstrated most obviously by their willingness to invest significant mounts of their own money in its services.