How Social Security Works: An Introduction to Benefits in Britain by Paul Spicker

Author:Paul Spicker [Spicker, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Public Policy, Sociology, Social Services & Welfare, Social Science, Political Science, Anthropology, Business & Economics, Social Security, Insurance, General, Cultural & Social
ISBN: 9781847428103
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Goodreads: 10283712
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2011-01-19T00:00:00+00:00

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION

How can benefits be adapted to the reality of people’s lives?

How else can the system be simplified?

1Cmnd 5116 (1972) Proposals for a tax credit system, London: HMSO.

2Department of Health and Social Security (1978) Social assistance, London: DHSS.

3Cmnd 9517-19 (1985) Reform of social security, vols 1, 2 and 3, London: HMSO.

4Cm 7957 (2010) Universal credit: Welfare that works, London: DWP.

5National Audit Office (2005) Dealing with the complexity of the benefits system, HC 592 2005-06, London: The Stationery Office

6Published as P Spicker (2005) ‘Five types of complexity’, Benefits, February.

7A Thomas (2008) Disability Living Allowance: Disallowed claims, London: Department for Work and Pensions.

8Department of Social Security (1999) A new contract for welfare: Children’s rights and parents’ responsibilities, Cm 4349, London: The Stationery Office.

9HM Treasury (2010) Budget 2010, HC 61, London: The Stationery Office, p 33.

10House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee (2007a) Benefits simplification, HC 461 (www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmworpen.htm).

11House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee (2007b) Third special report (www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmselect/cmworpen/1054/105404.htm).

12House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee (2007a), para 292.

13Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (2007) Tax credits – Getting it wrong?, HC 1010, London: The Stationery Office, p 10.

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