The Government has published a consultation paper on the reform of the State pension system, and the Citizen’s Income Trust has submitted a response. Here we print excerpts from the Read More
Looking at progress against the pillars of the Beveridge welfare state: health, housing and education, many commentators have identified housing as the ‘wobbly pillar’, starved of investment or ineffectively maintained. Read More
Introduction To support its campaign on the global extension of social security, in 2008 the International Labour Organisation (ILO) undertook a study of 126 research reports on tax-financed social transfer Read More
Anne Miller reviews the Department of Work and Pensions’ white paper, Universal Credit: welfare that works, Cmd 7957, briefly summarising the main proposals, and assessing to what extent the changes Read More
At a time when progressive social policies are under attack across the industrialized world, the Alaska Dividend continues to be extremely popular. It distributes a yearly dividend to every man, Read More
Introduction We begin our response with a question which the consultation document hasn’t asked: Income tax, National Insurance contributions, Tax Credits and welfare benefits together provide the structure for income Read More