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Low cost but acceptable incomes for older people: a minimum income standard for households aged 65-74 years in the UK; January 1999 prices
- Editor:
- PARKER Hermione
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 290p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Report aiming to: stimulate the debate about the incomes required by older people to avoid poverty; inform government decision making; and introduce readers to the method of calculating living costs called 'budget standards'. The study estimates the living costs, in January 1999, of men and women aged 65-74, at a living standard called 'low cost but acceptable (LCA), representing the poverty line. Budgets are presented for single women, single men and couples, as local authority tenants and as owner occupiers. The research is assisted by discussion groups composed of low income adults from the relevant age groups.
Pensioners' expenditure: an assessment of changes in living standards, 1979 - 1991
- Authors:
- SMEATON Deborah, HANCOCK Ruth
- Publisher:
- Age Concern Institute of Gerontology
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 70p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
Uses a detailed analysis of total household expenditure, its levels and distribution, to provide a comparison of living standards over time and between different social groups of older people.
Mapping demographic change: a factpack of statistics from the International Longevity Centre-UK
- Author:
- INTERNATIONAL LONGEVITY CENTRE UK
- Publisher:
- International Longevity Centre UK
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 28
- Place of publication:
- London
This second annual factpack on ageing and demographic change explores the impact of demographic change at a micro level - the individuals - and at a macro level - government finances and the wider economy. It sets out the latest evidence on how long people will live and how healthy they are likely to be. It also highlights who will need care and what will it cost. It presents the latest evidence on employment prospects and consider whether housing is meeting the needs. It provides new evidence on community engagement and considers the economic impact of ageing and how much government might need to spend on an ageing population. This factpack incorporates a special focus on pensioner poverty and the current and likely future sources of pensioner income. (Edited publisher abstract)
21st century pension (in)security
- Author:
- CLARK Gordon
- Publisher:
- University of Oxford. Oxford Institute of Ageing
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 29p.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
The influence of today's massive pension funds is being felt in every capital market in the world. Far from timidity institutional investors are using their influence to engage and in some cases aggressively challenge the management of corporations in which they invest in order to ensure long-term shareholder value for future beneficiaries. This corporate engagement reflects a power shift within the firm away from managers and toward shareholders and the institutional investors who represent them.
Family finances
- Author:
- FAMILY POLICY STUDIES CENTRE
- Publisher:
- Family Policy Studies Centre
- Publication year:
- 1989
- Pagination:
- 8p.,diags.
- Place of publication:
- London
Updates earlier editions. Examines sources and types of income, and the variation between different types of families. Looks at women's contributions to family income, and examines pensioner's incomes, low income families, the costs of children, how families divide their income, and at patterns of family spending.
Constructing the public-private divide: historical perspectives and the politics of pension reform
- Author:
- WHITESIDE Noel
- Publisher:
- University of Oxford. Institute of Ageing
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 24p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
In contrast to many European countries, UK pension policy has long sought to preserve private pension provision, initially through the promotion of occupational pension schemes and more recently with the development of state-sponsored personal pensions. This paper examines the record theoretically, historically and comparatively. It argues first, that arguments favouring public choice as the basis for old age income security are inherently flawed because they fail to recognise the role played by convention and law in sustaining and developing common knowledge and confidence – the essential bases for economic action on which individual choice relies. As conventions of market activity vary by place, by product and over time, there is a constant need to define and refine their public legitimacy, without which the collective confidence necessary for economic action disappears. Second, the paper offers an historical account of how public-private pension ‘partnerships’ were first established in the UK in the 1960s. Contrary to what we might expect, Old Labour was more conscious of the importance of preserving established conventions governing occupational and private provision than their New Labour successors have been. Recent extensions in regulatory surveillance expose the contradictions that result when governments attempt to extend market solutions as a substitute for public services. Finally, contrasting UK experience of earnings-related schemes with their European counterparts, the paper shows how different conventions have shaped different roles for the state in earnings-related pension provision, resulting in varied typologies of public-private mix. Under recent demographic and fiscal pressure, previous divisions between public and private have become increasingly complex as governments move to regulate personal pension savings as a necessary supplement to statutory schemes. However, in contrast to careful collective negotiation found elsewhere, changing conventions imposed by recent British governments have shattered public confidence and provoked inaction. Future pensioner poverty appears very likely unless politicians first accept that private provision will never replace public pensions and (secondly) are prepared to negotiate a settlement that promotes collective confidence among all agencies and the whole population.
Key indicators of personal social services for Northern Ireland 2001
- Authors:
- MOONEY Eugene, TAGGART Kieran, MCLAUGHLIN Jacqui
- Publisher:
- Northern Ireland. Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 170p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- Stormont
This publication provides detailed comparative information on social services expenditure and provision across the four Boards and eleven Trusts in Northern Ireland and across all major programmes of care.