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What's wrong with social security benefits? / Paul Spicker.
Lippincott Library HD7165 .S652 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spicker, Paul, author.
- Series:
- Policy Press shorts. Insights
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social security--Great Britain.
- Social security.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 177 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Policy Press, 2017.
- Contents:
- 1 Understanding social security 1
- Why pay benefits? 2
- What circumstances are the benefits paid for? 4
- Different types of benefit 7
- 2 Misunderstanding social security 13
- Spending 14
- The growth of dependency 17
- Disincentives to work 21
- Families where generations have never worked 23
- Benefits for migrants 25
- Fraud and abuse 27
- 3 The real problems 31
- The size of the operation 31
- The human factor 33
- Presumptuous administration 35
- Conditionally 38
- Complexity 41
- Correcting mistakes 45
- Selectivity 47
- Means testing 53
- 4 How much is enough? 57
- Cash and the private market 57
- Income packages 59
- How much should benefits be? 60
- Changing benefit incomes 64
- Providing a basic income 66
- 5 Reforming key benefits 71
- Benefits for older people 72
- Benefits for disability 76
- Family benefits 80
- Out of work 83
- Benefits for housing 94
- 6 Changing the benefits system 97
- Universal Basic Income 100
- Some other ideas for reform 106
- How to change the system of benefits: a manifesto for change 109.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George R. Fink Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781447337324
- 1447337328
- OCLC:
- 962015868
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