the direct payments. Those who enrolled farmed more acres and depended moreon crop production for their gross income, and …

. In Section 8,we discuss our results and the likely behavioral responses by a bank participant to the availability of the …

We argue that independent entitlement to income is important. This implies that earnings replacement benefits paid to … individuals fulfil a range of functions which means-tested benefits, assessed at the family rather than individual level, cannot …. The argument also highlights the need to consider gender differences in the receipt of income. We explore the implications …

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.[...] …