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- Title
Reforming Supplementary Benefit: The impact on claimants.
- Authors
Walker, Carol
- Abstract
The Government bill to reform social security will become an Act in 1986, and is planned for implementation in April 1987. One of the most significant areas for change will be the supplementary, benefit scheme, which now has some four million claimants, and supports over seven million people. It will be replaced by the income support scheme, which will differ in important respects from the current provision. The review, of the SB scheme, set up by Norman Fowler, was the second major review, of the scheme in less than a decade. The first review was set up by the Labour Government in 1976 and culminated in major changes introduced by the Conservative Government in the Social Security, Act 1980. This article examines what impact the 198o scheme had on claimants, on their standard of living, on their understanding of the scheme and on the extent to which the scheme meets their needs. It then goes on to examine whether the Fowler Act will meet some of the criticisms of the 198o reforms and, in particular, if it will improve the position of claimants.
- Subjects
SOCIAL security; LEGISLATIVE bills; FOWLER, Norman, 1938-; PUBLIC welfare; REFORMS; UNEMPLOYMENT insurance claimants
- Publication
Social Policy & Administration, 1986, Vol 20, Issue 2, p91
- ISSN
0144-5596
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9515.1986.tb00484.x