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The February issue of Benefits (theme of Simplifying social security)
is now available. Contents are provide below. For further information
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Contents:
Simplification is complicated
Hartley Dean, London School of Economics and Political Science
Five types of complexity
Paul Spicker, The Robert Gordon University
Simplification, modernisation and social security
Jane Millar, University of Bath
Dealing with complexity
Paul Howarth, Department for Work and Pensions
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responsibility?
Terry Patterson, Welfare Rights Specialist and Gary Vaux, Money Advice
Unit
Making work pay?
Fran Bennett, University of Oxford and Jane Millar, University of Bath
RESEARCH ROUND-UP
Department for Work and Pensions:
Management styles and characteristics of Housing Benefit managers
Jobcentre Plus' delivery of new tax credit policy
Financial support for 16- to 19-year-olds: a review of the literature
and evidence on the Australian Youth Allowance
The University of Hull:
The local impacts of international migration: the information base
Living on the edge: sexual behaviour and young parenthood in seaside
and rural areas
Minority ethnic groups in a rural labour market
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IN PRACTICE
For whose benefit?
Neil Bateman, Independent author, trainer and consultant
Access to work for minority ethnic communities
Barbara J. Guest, Linkworker Service Manager and Elaine Mills, Service
Improvement and Inclusion Team
POLICY REVIEW
Will Paxton and Mike Dixon (2004) The state of the nation: An audit of
injustice in the UK, Reviewed by Tania Burchardt, London School of
Economics and Political Science
OFFICIAL BUSINESS
Poverty and social exclusion
Social security and the New Deal
Pensions
Child Support
Public Accounts Committee reports
PARLIAMENTARY QUESTIONS
Attitudes ~ Benefits administration ~ Benefits fraud ~ Benefit
sanctions ~ Carers ~ Child Support ~ Council Tax Benefit ~ Disability
benefits etc ~ Joblessness ~ Means-tested benefits ~ National Insurance
numbers ~ Pensions and pensioners ~ Social Fund ~ Tax credits ~
Household incomes.
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