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Apologies for cross-posting ___________________________________________________________________________ The October issue of Benefits is now available. Contents below. You can download a FREE sample issue of the journal from www.policypress.org.uk/benefits.htm Benefits - A Journal of Social Security Research, Policy and Practice Number 38, October 2003, Volume 11, Issue 3 DISABILITY AND ILL-HEALTH Commissioning Editor for this issue: Karen Rowlingson, Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath ARTICLES Why have disability categories in social security? Deborah Mabbett, School of International Studies, Brunel University Disabled people and jobs Richard Berthoud, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex Disability Working Allowance: what was the point? Norman Cockett, Department for Work and Pensions In search of a welfare-to-work solution: the New Deal for Disabled People Bruce Stafford, Centre for Research in Social Policy, Loughborough University Underwriting citizenship for older people Gary Craig, Paul Dornan, Jonathan Bradshaw, Ruth Garbutt, Saira Mumtaz, Alia Syed and Antoinette Ward, Universities of York and Hull RESEARCH ROUND-UP National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux Unfair and underfunded: CAB evidence on what's wrong with the Social Fund Joseph Rowntree Foundation Tax credits and how to respond to income changes Department for Work and Pensions New Deal for Lone Parents: Second synthesis report of the national evaluation VIEWPOINT Myths about the tax and benefit systems Fran Bennett, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Oxford IN PRACTICE The capital limit for Housing Benefit/Council Tax Benefit has been abolished (or not)... Alan Franco Changing claims? Terry Patterson POLICY REVIEW A long way to travel: towards a rational migration policy for the UK Adrian Harvey, Fabian Society REPORT BACK OFFICIAL BUSINESS PARLIAMENTARY QUESTIONS BOOK REVIEWS Goul Andersen and Jensen (eds) (2002) Changing labour markets, welfare policies and citizenship, Reviewed by Guiliano Bonoli, Department of Social Work and Social Policy, University of Fribourg, Switzerland Barnes et al (2002) Poverty and social exclusion in Europe, Reviewed by Rob Sykes, School of Social Science and Law, Sheffield Hallam University To subscribe to Benefits, please contact The Portland Press Ltd on Tel: +44 (0)1206 796351 or Email: [log in to unmask] ---------------- Natasha Ferguson Marketing Assistant The Policy Press e [log in to unmask] t +44 (0)117 331 4096 f +44 (0)117 331 4093 Fourth Floor, Beacon House, Queen's Road, Bristol, BS8 1QU, UK The Policy Press is an Investors in People organisation.