caring with employment is extremely difficult, so families are heavily reliant upon benefits. But do disability benefits …Families with disabled children are susceptible to poverty because low income is compounded by high costs. Combing … provide financial security for families who are susceptible to high levels of poverty and social exclusion? This qualitative …

visits by trained social workers to households in extreme poverty with preferential access to social programs. We use a … that this major national program is likely to fail in making a significant contribution to reducing extreme poverty. We …

. Fourth, simple event studies examining employment in the years around the reduction of disability benefits (following a …We examine the living standards and health of working-age disabled people and disability benefits recipients over time … in the UK. The UK’s disability benefits system (which is non-means-tested and in which receipt is unrelated to work …

Review Article of J. Handler and Y. Hasenfeld's Blame Welfare: Ignore Poverty and Inequality …

Welfare-to-work measures are a central theme of Israel’s labour and social policies to tackle relative poverty, which …. Microeconomic simulations of taxes and benefits suggest room for augmenting these policies with adjustments to benefits and tax … comparison with OECD countries, but it is not strongly enforced. Poverty among pensioners is set to fall in the future with the …

The main objectives of social assistance benefits, including poverty alleviation and labor-market or social … discuss the poverty implications of our results. …

The main objectives of social assistance benefits, including poverty alleviation and labor-market or social … discuss the poverty implications of our results. …

benefits. Once methodological shortcomings of prior estimations are corrected, the results show that take-up has fallen … claim their benefits. …

The non take-up of social assistance bene?ts due to claim costs may seriously limit the anti-poverty e¤ect of these …

The non take-up of social assistance benefits due to claim costs may seriously limit the anti-poverty effect of these …