The impact on incentives of five years of social security reform in the UK

Brewer, Mike; Clark, Tom

doi:10.1920/wp.ifs.2002.0214

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“…Take-up also increases with the size of the benefit. Brewer et al (2002) estimate takeup rates as over time: 77% in 1993/4 and 81% in 1998/9 for lone parents (66% and 58% for couples).…”

Section: Working Families' Tax Creditmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Help with childcare and travel costs. Less intensive services offered to those over 50, lone parents, and the disabled (Brewer et al 2002).…”

Section: New Deal Programmesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Income support for pensioners rose considerably from 1997 to 2002: for example, by 31% for a single pensioner under 75, and 25% for a pensioner couple where one is aged 75 or over (Brewer et al, 2002).…”

Section: Income Support For Pensionersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is paid by local councils. Council Tax Benefit: A means-tested program that pays the council "rates" of Brewer et al (2002) estimates take-up rates for housing benefits of : 89% for pensioners, 99% for non-pensioners with children and, 92% for non-pensioners without children, in 1999/2000. Department for Work and Clark, Giles, and Hall (1999) note that the Council Tax Benefit is very complex which discourages take-up.…”

Section: Housing Programsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Take Up of Social Benefits

Currie

2004

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This paper offers a review of recent literature regarding the take up of social programs in the U.S. and U.K. A few general conclusions are drawn: First, take up is enhanced by automatic or default enrollment and lowered by administrative barriers, although removing individual barriers does not necessarily have much effect, suggesting that one must address the whole bundle. Second, although it may be impossible to devise a definitive test of the "stigma hypothesis", other, more concrete types of transactions costs are probably a good deal more important. Third, although people generally have means-tested programs in the United States in mind when they discuss take up, low take up is also a problem in many non means-tested social insurance programs and in other countries. Historically, economists have paid little attention to rules about eligibility, and virtually no attention to how these rules are enforced or made known to eligibles. Hence, the marginal return to new data about these features of programs is likely to be high in terms of understanding take up. In an era of social experiments, it might also prove useful to consider experimental manipulations of factors thought to influence take up.

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“…Take-up also increases with the size of the benefit. Brewer et al (2002) estimate takeup rates as over time: 77% in 1993/4 and 81% in 1998/9 for lone parents (66% and 58% for couples).…”

Section: Working Families' Tax Creditmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Help with childcare and travel costs. Less intensive services offered to those over 50, lone parents, and the disabled (Brewer et al 2002).…”

Section: New Deal Programmesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Income Support For Pensionersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Housing Programsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Take Up of Social Benefits

Currie

2004

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“…Opting-out or contracting-out is a form of privatisation in which employees have a choice of switching from publicly-funded to privately-unfunded programmes, in other words the right to leave the public system in order to obtain part of their social security pension through a private pension scheme. In Europe, the most illustrative example of this policy option is represented by the UK (Brewer, Clark andWakefield, 2002, Budd andCampbell, 1998). The first tier consisted of the flat-rate basic state pension, an earningsrelated component financed from contributions -the Earnings-Related Pension Scheme (SERPS)-and a means-tested supplementary pension.…”

Section: Opting Outmentioning

confidence: 99%

European social citizenship and the privatisation of welfare state

Katrugalos

2016

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<p>The paper tries to outline the recent trends of privatization of public pension schemes in Europe and then to proceed to a critical appraisal of them. Market principles, such as competitiveness and the maximisation of cost efficiency, are becoming more prominent across Europe, contradicting those principles that have traditionally associated with social policy, like equity, solidarity, social justice. However, private and public sectors are not functionally equivalent. There are some roles, as, for instance, redistribution, that only the State can fulfil. Besides that, public values, such as citizenship, in the Marshallean sense, are not easily transferable in privatized environment</p>

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