Publication type
Journal Article
Authors
Publication date
February 15, 2014
Summary:
The UK Attendance Allowance (AA) and Disability Living Allowance (DLA) are non-means-tested benefits paid to many disabled people aged 65 + . They may also increase entitlements to means-tested benefits through the Severe Disability Premium (SDP). We investigate proposed reforms involving withdrawal of AA/DLA. Despite their present non-means-tested nature, we show that withdrawal would affect mainly low-income people, whose losses could be mitigated if SDP were retained at its current or a higher level. We also show the importance of the method of describing distributional impacts and that use of inappropriate income definitions in official reports has overstated recipients' capacity to absorb the loss of these benefits.
Published in
Ageing and Society
Volume and page numbers
Volume: 34 , p.232 -257
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X1200075X
ISSN
144686
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