Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Pudney, Stephen
Title: Disability benefits for older people: how does the UK Attendance Allowance system really work?
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.

Creation-Date: 20100125
Number: 2010-02
Publication-Status: published
File-URL: https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/files/working-papers/iser/2010-02.pdf
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Handle: RePEc:ese:iserwp:2010-02