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The employment tax credit: and issues for the future of in-work support
- Authors:
- BENNETT Fran, HIRSCH Donald
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 152p.
- Place of publication:
- York
From 2003, the Government plans to introduce the Employment Tax Credit, to extend help to a wider range of individuals and couples with earnings from work who are nonetheless living on low incomes. What place is there for such in-work supplements in tackling poverty and promoting opportunity? An analysis of evidence suggests the need to balance the decision to extend income top-ups with other policies in order to achieve these aims.
Work in progress: CAB clients' experiences of Working Families' Tax Credit
- Author:
- WHEATLEY John
- Publisher:
- National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 62p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Working families’ tax credit and disabled person’s tax credit were was introduced in October 1999. A disabled child tax credit followed in October 2000. The tax credits scheme is designed ‘to give working families with children a better deal’. Working families’ tax credit and disabled person’s tax credit have a key role to play in eliminating poverty, and the extra sums available to families in paid work are welcome. The impact on poverty will be diminished unless take-up of the tax credits is high. This report shows that take-up of the tax credits will be reduced, unless people are given more choice about how they are paid working families’ tax credit; there is improved publicity and information; and the rules on the childcare tax credit are amended.
Work in progress: CAB clients' experiences of Working Families' Tax Credit: summary
- Author:
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX
- Publisher:
- National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Working families’ tax credit and disabled person’s tax credit were was introduced in October 1999. A disabled child tax credit followed in October 2000. The tax credits scheme is designed ‘to give working families with children a better deal’. Working families’ tax credit and disabled person’s tax credit have a key role to play in eliminating poverty, and the extra sums available to families in paid work are welcome. The impact on poverty will be diminished unless take-up of the tax credits is high. This report shows that take-up of the tax credits will be reduced, unless people are given more choice about how they are paid working families’ tax credit; there is improved publicity and information; and the rules on the childcare tax credit are amended.
Independent successes: implementing direct payments
- Author:
- DAWSON Carol
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 81p., bibiliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
Direct payments have been heralded as a means by which disabled people might gain more independence and control over their lives. However, the introduction of cash payment in lieu of community care is highly complex for both disabled people who wish to employ their own personal assistants and or social services departments. This report evaluates and draws the experience of those who receive direct payments and draws on qualitative interviews with them and within the operational and support staff within social services departments.
The Human Rights Act: what are the implications for older people?; a Help the Aged seminar at Westminster on 13th September 2000
- Author:
- HELP THE AGED
- Publisher:
- Help the Aged
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 14p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Describes a Help the Aged seminar held at Westminster on the thirteenth of September, 2000. Delegates agreed on the need for a greater awareness of the provisions of the Human Rights Act, and extensive training with specific guidelines for those working with older people. Topics addressed included; key concepts; implications of the Act; how the Act can help in practical situations; the role of Help the Aged.