Comparative Social Assistance: Localisation and Discretion by John Ditch

Author:John Ditch [Ditch, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Public Policy, Sociology, Social Policy, Social Science, Political Science, Social Security, General
ISBN: 9781840143461
Google: ei1zDwAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 2143089
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: 1997-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Finance and control

The cost of Social Assistance is born by municipalities who raise revenue to fund it by local income taxation. This is true subject to two reservations:

1. About 25 per cent of the expenditure on Social Assistance nationally goes to refugees and the municipalities are refunded by central government for the first 3.5 years’ costs (including Social Assistance) of a refugee’s residence in their area- on a diminishing scale. However the refunds are not direct but distributed via a block grant.

2. Local government finance is (inevitably) very complicated and changing with a new scheme, recently and painfully agreed, being implemented from January 1996. At present municipalities raise over 80 per cent of their own revenue, 55 per cent of this by income tax and the rest in user charges and other local sources.

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