Targeting Social Benefits: International Perspectives and Trends by Neil Gilbert

Author:Neil Gilbert [Gilbert, Neil]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781138533844
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Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2000-09-28T00:00:00+00:00

Source: 1980–1995, Annual Survey 1994/95, Jerusalem: The National Insurance Institute, Research and Planning Administration, December 1995.

Table 4.3 Families and Children Receiving Children’s Allowances, 1996 Percentage of All Recipients, Monthly Averages.

Source: Annual Survey 1995/96» Jerusalem: The National Insurance Institute, Research and Planning Administration, 1996.

In targeting terms, however, the average value of the allowance for a child in a family of four children in 1996 was 5.4 percent of the average wage and twice as much as for a child in a family with one or two children. In 1975 the average value of the allowance for a child in a family of four children was 6.85 percent of the average wage but only about 65 percent higher as for a child in a family with one or two children. The persistent use of targeting the allowances to large families by means of benefit structure thus proved to be rather effective.

From 1980 to 1995 the children’s allowances payments as proportion of the GDP had remained more or less stable, at around 1.6 percent. The proportion taken by the children’s allowances payments of all Nil payments, was at its highest in 1975—almost 34 percent; it fell to its lowest at 19 percent in 1990 and increased slightly to more than 20 percent in 1995. It seems that the cost of the integrated system of support to families with children by means of these allowances is quite effective in targeting the payments to families of various sizes.

The children’s allowances program has undergone many changes since its inception in 1959, and throughout the years it has been under continuous review and reform. Its pattern of evolution reflects the difficulty of reaching a consensus about the role of the program in the country’s social policy and in the long-term strategy for targeting its benefits to various groups of families with children. In view of the social, economic, and political changes affecting Israeli society in recent years and the persistence of deep ethnic, religious, and social class cleavages, the prospect of reaching such a consensus seems remote. The pattern of continuous change will apparently continue in the years ahead.

Table 4.4 The Incidence of Poverty among Families with Children, 1995 (after taxes and Income transfer payments), Percentages

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