Modelling the Take-up of Means-tested Benefits: the Case of Housing Benefits in the United Kingdom.
Official estimates of housing benefit take-up rates suggest that up to two million families in the United Kingdom ma y not be receiving the help with their housing costs to which they ar e entitled. The authors' interest in the take-up of means tested bene fits is therefore motivated by two concerns. The first is the governm ent revenue implications of a change to benefit entitlement levels. T he second relates to the welfare of individuals who fail to claim the ir entitlement to benefit. In this paper, the authors investigate the relationship between the take-up of means-tested housing benefit, in dividual socioeconomic characteristics, and the level of entitlement. Copyright 1987 by Royal Economic Society.
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1987
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Authors: | Blundell, Richard ; Fry, Vanessa ; Walker, Ian |
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Economic Journal. - Royal Economic Society - RES, ISSN 1468-0297. - Vol. 98.1987, 390, p. 58-74
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