This paper examines the labour supply disincentives of the Income Support system among single mothers with no … withdrawal of Income Support for single mothers whose youngest child turns 16. At this cut-off age, barely ineligible mothers … pronounced labour supply disincentives of the income support policy. -- Single mothers ; Income Support ; Labour supply …

single mothers whose youngest child turns 16 on the disability benefits welfare participation decision of single mothers with … these single mothers are 4.2 percentage points more likely to claim health benefits as their youngest child turns 16 …, consistent with a theoretical model of benefits choice. More than a quarter of single mothers who were initially on Income …