Considerable controversy exists regarding the costs and benefits of growth in the meatpacking and processing industry …

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 …

Attitudes survey on public attitudes toredistribution and social security benefits and at how these relate to currentgovernment … education above all, but also benefits forcarers, disabled people, pensioners and low-paid families. More than twothirdssay that … benefits for these groups should be increased.[...] …