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Between 2010 and 2017, 42 U.S. states added work requirements as a food assistance eligibility criterion for Able-Bodied Adults Without Dependents (ABAWDs). Another U.S. public assistance program, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), provides food assistance without a work requirement, along with...
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the delivery of their welfare program benefits from paper checks to an Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) system, whereby … stems from public assistance or welfare payments. In the 1990s, the Federal government mandated individual states to convert …
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Taking advantage of a reform that made Chile’s most popular conditional cash transfer program substantially more generous, I study its impact on mothers’ labor supply using a difference-in-difference strategy. Previous research has focused on these effects near the inauguration of CCTs,...
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We analyse the impact of changes to devolved income tax rates and bands and benefits, and show the total impact of the …
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Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is a disability benefit that aims to support individuals facing higher living costs …
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final disability determination decision. The time lag arising from the often-lengthy disability determination process …
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have benefits as well, including better targeting transfers to desired recipients or states of the world. In this paper, we … benefits to recipients while targeting benefits to a small fraction of the eligible population that has greater demand for … cost of recent reforms that move toward more flexible, cash-like benefits …
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This paper examines the rise of the social protection agenda in Zambia, and demonstrates that this has two alternative drivers: shifting dynamics within Zambia's political settlement and the promotional efforts of a transnational policy coalition. We compare the cases of social cash transfers...
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account possible changes in private behaviour induced by Seguro Popular may overstate the program’s potential benefits or …
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