Government policies on disability – and criticism of them – rest in parton an understanding of the circumstances of …-disabled”. While conceptual debates about thenature of disability and associated measurement problems have receivedsome attention, the … dynamic aspect of disability has been largelyoverlooked. This paper uses two approaches to longitudinal data fromthe British …

in 1998, by settingthem in the context of the development of disability benefits since theearly 1970s. The first section … charts the creation, extension andsubsequent series of reforms of disability benefits, and shows that while …‘compensatory’ benefits like Industrial Injuries benefit have played asteady role, ‘extra costs’ benefits like Disability Living Allowance …

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