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| Title: | | Disability benefits for older people: How does the UK attendance allowance system really work?  |
| Authors: | | Pudney, Steve |
| Issue Date: | | 2010 |
| Series/Report no.: | | ISER Working Paper Series 2010-02 |
| Abstract: | | We analyse FRS survey data on the relationship between disability and receipt of the Attendance Allowance (AA) disability benefit by older people. Despite being non-means-tested, we find that AA is implicitly income-targeted and strongly targeted on those with care needs. We focus particularly on the receipt of higher-rate benefit, intended for those in need of day-and-night care, finding that, in practice, higher-rate payments are negatively related to age and income, in addition to care needs. The allocation of higher-rate AA awards strongly favours people with physical rather than cognitive disabilities. |
| Subjects: | | disability benefits welfare participation Attendance Allowance FRS |
| JEL: | | C14 I18 I38 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | ISER Working Paper Series, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex
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