Hancock, R.M., Morciano, M. and Pudney, S.E. orcid.org/0000-0002-5697-0976 (2019) Public support for older disabled people: evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing on receipt of disability benefits and social care subsidy. Fiscal Studies, 40 (1). pp. 19-43. ISSN 0143-5671
Abstract
In England, state support for older people with disabilities consists of a national system of non-means tested cash disability benefits, and a locally-administered means-tested system of social care. Evidence on how the combination of the two systems targets those in most need is lacking. We estimate a latent factor structural equation model of disability and receipt of one or both forms of support. The model integrates the measurement of disability and its influence on receipt of state support, allowing for the socio-economic gradient in disability, and adopts income and wealth constructs appropriate to each part of the model. We find that receipt of each form of support rises as disability increases, with a strong concentration on the most disabled, especially for LA-funded care. The overlap between the two programmes is confined to the most disabled. Less than half of recipients of local authority-funded care also receive a disability benefit; a third of those in the top 10% of the disability distribution receive neither form of support. Despite being non means-tested, disability benefits display a degree of income and wealth targeting, as a consequence of the socio-economic gradient in disability and likely disability benefit claims behaviour. The scope for improving income/wealth targeting of disability benefits by means testing them, as some have suggested, is thus less than might be expected.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Hancock, R. , Morciano, M. and Pudney, S. (2018), Public support for older disabled people: evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing on receipt of disability benefits and social care subsidy. Fiscal Studies, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-5890.12169. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving. |
Keywords: | older people; disability; social care; disability benefits; target efficiency; English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health (Sheffield) > School of Health and Related Research (Sheffield) > ScHARR - Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ECONOMIC & SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL ES/L009153/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 08 May 2018 14:02 |
Last Modified: | 26 Nov 2020 08:29 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/1475-5890.12169 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:130535 |