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- Book Title
- Broken Benefits
- Publication Name
- Broken Benefits : What's Gone Wrong with Welfare Reform?
- Title
- Broken Benefits
- Subtitle
- What's Gone Wrong with Welfare Reform
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9781447333265
- ISBN
- 9781447333265
- Publisher
- Bristol University Press
- Genre
- Society & Culture
- Topic
- Social Sciences
- Release Date
- 25/10/2017
- Release Year
- 2017
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 1.4in
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Language
- English
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 15.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 276 Pages
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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 original research and high-profile debates, this much-needed book provides an introductory guide to social security, correcting misunderstandings and exposing poorly understood problems. It reveals how some workers pay to take on additional hours; that those who pay national insurance contributions may get nothing in return; that some families can be paid to split apart; and that many people on the lowest incomes are seeing their retirement age rise the fastest. Broken Benefits includes real-life stories, models of household budgets, projections of benefit spending, and a free online calculator showing the impact of welfare changes on personal finances. The book presents practical ideas of how benefits should be reformed, to create a fairer, simpler and more coherent system for the future.
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Publisher
Bristol University Press
ISBN-10
1447333268
ISBN-13
9781447333265
eBay Product ID (ePID)
235475787
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Broken Benefits : What's Gone Wrong with Welfare Reform?
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
276 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
1.4in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
15.6 Oz
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Invaluable: not just a clear and authoritative guide to the complex world of social security benefits, but a superb analysis of why much recent welfare reform has gone wrong and what needs to be done to get the system right for the people who rely on it., A highly engaging and accessible account of the challenges within our social security system and a powerful manifesto for change. This authoritative guide to the facts behind the headlines is needed now more than ever., This excellent book not only explains clearly how we got to the broken system we have, and what principles should guide its overhaul. An important book for all those making decisions about the benefits system and those hoping to influence those decisions., Broken Benefits gives expert, accessible exposure of social security provision in the UK - its past, its cuts, its future plans. It strongly calls for Better Benefits., A superb and deeply knowledgeable analysis of how our benefit system really works - and sometimes doesn't - for those in need. Benefits too often confuse, conflict, are wrongly sanctioned and wrongly denied; claiming them even leaves some people worse off. Yet a sane and decent benefit system, both for those in and out of work, is the most effective path out of poverty. Clear-eyed, compassionate and compelling, this book is a must-read, and must-keep, for all who care about the poverty and insecurity of our fellow citizens., Timely, detailed, well-researched, and well-written: not an easy combination to achieve in relation to the UK's benefit system., Here is a policy expert who writes with real warmth. His plan to repair the safety net is unmissable.
Table of Content
List of figures and tables About the author Acknowledgements Part I: Introducing the benefits system 1 Introduction 2 The makings of a 'British revolution': A brief history of benefits 3 What are benefits for? Part II: Mapping it all out - The mechanics of the benefits system 4 Benefit entitlements for people with no other income or savings 5 Contribution-based benefit entitlements for people with no other income or savings 6 How support changes on moving into work Part III: A thousand cuts 7 A freeze is as good as a cut 8 'Unlimited' welfare 9 Welfare reform and the 'family test' 10 Cuts to Employment and Support Allowance and the 'limited capability for work' component of Universal Credit 11 Triple locked? Benefits for pensioners 12 Welfare that works? The 'old' systems 13 Welfare that works? Universal Credit 14 Contribution-based benefits: The great insurance scam Part IV: Chaos, error and misjudgments - Payments and administration in the benefits system 15 Reasons to be fearful?: assessing sickness and disability 16 'Chaos, error and misjudgment': The administration of Tax credits and Universal Credit 17 Sanctions 18 Local benefits, local choices 19 Making 'older people' older: Changes in the pension age Part V: The 'new settlement' - Benefits in 2020 20 Understanding the 'low tax, low welfare' economy 21 The social impact of moving to a 'low welfare' economy Part VI: Better benefits 22 Preventing poverty and destitution 23 A system that responds to household need 24 Supporting 'socially desirable' behaviours 25 Simplicity from the claimant's perspective 26 Conclusion Notes Index
Copyright Date
2017
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Sociology / General, Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare
Dewey Decimal
942.06
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Social Science, Political Science
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