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Paying the premium
- Author:
- WITCHER Sally
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 26.9.91, 1991, p.14.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Argues that the birth of the severe disability premium was a mistake and that the government would do well to start afresh.
Unravelling disability allowances
- Author:
- BURGESS Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 5.9.91, 1991, p.9.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Briefly outlines the Independent Living Fund and considers the implications of its winding up in June 1993.
Right to work?
- Author:
- SCOTT Nicholas
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 5.9.91, 1991, p.19.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The Minister for Disabled People writes in defence of the Disability Working Allowance.
Crocodile tears over disability
- Author:
- MORRIS Alf
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 21.3.91, 1991, p.12.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Campaigning MP Alf Morris argues that the new Disability Benefits Bill may not deliver on its promise of a new, 'caring' deal from the government.
Trick or treat?
- Author:
- WITCHER Sally
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 18.7.91, 1991, p.9.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at the new Disability Working Allowance which may force claimants into low-paid jobs and make a return to long-term benefit difficult.
Waiting in the wings
- Author:
- HATCHETT Will
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 4.7.91, 1991, p.9.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Talks to Tom Clarke MP about his late lamented Disabled Persons Act, and the future of disability benefits under a future Labour Government
Social security and community care: the case of the invalid care allowance
- Author:
- McLAUGHLIN Eithne
- Publisher:
- HMSO
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 79p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report examining one aspect of the role of social security in community care: social security for unpaid (informal) carers via the invalid care allowance. Looks at the origins, development and operation of the ICA; the nature of care giving; care giving, employment and the ICA; carers incomes and the ICA; standard of living of recipients; the relationship with other social security benefits; claiming the ICA and the perceptions and awareness of potential recipients of their entitlements; and finally, looks at the effective targetting of the ICA.