Government policies on disability - and criticism of them - rest in part on an understanding of the circumstances of …-disabled'. While conceptual debates about the nature of disability and associated measurement problems have received some attention …, the dynamic aspect of disability has been largely overlooked. This paper uses two approaches to longitudinal data from the …

possible source of additional needs: disability. Using two UK household surveys, we seek to establish whether there are extra … costs of living associated with disability, and to quantify them using the 'standard of living' approach. The underlying … theory is that a household's standard of living is a function of income and needs. The extra costs of disability can be …

status. In this paper we use data from two large scale social surveys to examine the relationship between disability status … important lifecycle patterns. The incidence of disability increases with age and the effect of this is that disabled people are … that average differences understate the true disability wealth-penalty. People who experience disability later in life have …

caring with employment is extremely difficult, so families are heavily reliant upon benefits. But do disability benefits … experience of applying for disability living allowance (DLA) and how they use additional benefit income. Families report that DLA …

progression of disabled people with respect to differences in age, education, occupation and disability severity. The evidence …