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Practising Welfare Rights (Social Work Skills Series.) by Neil Bateman

By Neil Bateman

Practicing Welfare Rights goals to enhance wisdom between humans operating in social paintings and recommendation companies in regards to the talents required for potent welfare rights paintings, and gives information for managers and different pros approximately tips on how to enhance a welfare rights provider. Written via a well known writer, coach and adviser on welfare rights matters, this booklet contains: studying ambitions actions to check figuring out illustrative case stories. It additionally covers middle welfare rights abilities, akin to interviewing, criminal learn, negotiation and advocacy, and discusses the old, social and financial forces that have formed welfare rights perform in addition to the politics of welfare. An obtainable publication which highlights where of welfare rights perform in smooth society. 

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On another occasion in 2001, ministers were advised in writing by civil servants not to invite external partner organisations to the launch of a leaflet to increase benefit take-up by pensioners, because this might give such organisations an opportunity to criticise government policy. Another landmark has been New Labour’s uneasy relationship with disability benefits and the groups which represent the interests of those receiving these. Widespread unhappiness with the 1998 legislation which further tightened incapacity benefit entitlement was generally felt to have terminated the promising career of the then Secretary of State for Social Security, Harriet Harman.

7 million in 1996/97, a fall of 500,000. Pensioners are now no more likely to be in low-income than working-age households. . 6 million. This group now accounts for a third of all people in low-income households. The focus of Government anti-poverty strategies of recent years on children and pensioners, and the lack of priority accorded to working-age adults without dependent children, is illustrated by what has been happening to levels of Income Support (IS). Since 1998, IS for a couple with two children has risen by a third after allowing for inflation while IS for a couple with one child has risen a quarter.

1 The poverty trap illustrated Married couple with two children under 11, typical local authority tenant Source: Department for Work and Pensions (2004) Tax Benefit Model Tables. Leeds: DWP The graph shows the effect on take-home income when a family (DWP wording refers to a married couple) with an average local authority rent moves into full-time paid work. An allowance is built into the benefit level for passported benefits. It is not until about £450 a week gross is earned that this family start to see a good return on their income.

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