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Broken benefits : what's gone wrong with welfare reform /
Britain is going through the most radical upheaval of the benefits system since its foundations were laid at the end of the 1940s. In Broken Benefits, Sam Royston argues that social security isn't working, and without a change in direction, it will be even less fair in the future. Drawing on or...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol, UK :
Policy Press,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; BROKEN BENEFITS; Contents; List of figures and tables; Figures; Tables; About the author; Acknowledgements; Part I. Introducing the benefits system; 1. Introduction; What exactly are 'benefits'?; What is 'broken' about the benefits system?; The benefits system is changing; Fixing the benefits system; What next?; 2. The makings of a 'British revolution': A brief history of benefits; Poor relief before the Poor Law; The Poor Law; Welfare from 1800 to 1945; The Beveridge Report, 1942; Some things change, some things stay the same; Conclusion; 3. What are benefits for?
- Providing a 'minimum' safety net'Levelling the playing field' between households with different levels of need; Promoting socially desirable behaviours; Conclusion; Part II. Mapping it all out
- The mechanics of the benefits system; 4. Benefit entitlements for people with no other income or savings; Support for personal living costs: the 'personal allowance'; Extra help if you have a partner; Support for children; Help with housing costs; Extra help if you are off work due to illness, or have a disability; Support for carers; Universal Credit; The 'benefit cap'; Conclusion.
- 5. Contribution-based benefit entitlements for people with no other income or savingsContribution-based Jobseeker's Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance; The 'old' State Pension; The 'new' State Pension; Contribution-based benefits and Universal Credit; Treatment of contribution-based benefits as taxable income; Conclusion; 6. How support changes on moving into work; 'Out-of-work' benefits; Means testing for people not receiving out-of-work benefits; Universal Credit; Universal benefits; Conclusion; Part III . A thousand cuts; 7. A freeze is as good as a cut.
- Below-inflationary uprating, 2010-20Freezes to children's benefits; Freezing help with housing costs; Benefit rises below inflation and 'protection' for the sick and disabled; Conclusion; 8. 'Unlimited' welfare; What is 'unlimited' welfare?; The 'two-child limit' for Child Tax Credit and the child element of Universal Credit; The 'benefit cap'; The Local Housing Allowance cap; Is it right to cap benefit entitlements?; Conclusion; 9. Welfare reform and the 'family test'; Poverty and the 'family test'; Cuts to Child Tax Credit; Disabled child additions within Universal Credit.
- Cuts to support for young single parents under Universal CreditNew families; The 'family test' and the 'couple penalty'; Conclusion; 10. Cuts to Employment and Support Allowance and the 'limited capability for work' component of Universal Credit; About Employment and Support Allowance and 'limited capability for work' in Universal Credit; Changes to Employment and Support Allowance entitlements
- removal of the 'work-related activity' component; The impact of removing the work-related activity component on in-work support in Universal Credit.