Universal Credit in UK Law
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Universal Credit, ‘Positive Citizenship’, and the Working Poor: Squaring the Eternal Circle?
This article examines the potential effects of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 on the United Kingdom social security system, and on claimants. This legislation illustrates new modes of thought and ideo...
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Universal credit, ideology and the politics of poverty.
...Universal Credit was the centrepiece of Iain Duncan Smith's reforms at the Department for Work and Pensions between 2010 and 2016. It has been widely criticized and its delivery beset by problems. To understand the policy, though, and how it might be......
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Faces of hunger: an intersectional approach to children's right to food in the United Kingdom
This article explores the extent to which the right to food is currently enjoyed by children within the United Kingdom (UK) using image analysis of the food parcels received by children eligible fo...... ... prior to the pandemic in relation to the currentUniversal Credit system. The article adopts an intersec-tional approach, connecting the ... which eligibility iscontingent upon parental receipt of either Universal Credit or one of a number of legacy benefits,including Income Support and ... ...
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Contemporary UK wage floors and the calculation of a living wage
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe how the voluntary living wage (LW) in the UK is set. It examines how this calculation relates to contemporary approaches to setting wage floors, bo...... ... by state support forhouseholds, especially tax credits and Universal Credit.Originality/value –The paper clarifies how the setting of the UK ... ...
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Automation and inequality with taxes and transfers
Declines in low‐skill labour shares are reviewed, and a stylised model is constructed to examine their determinants and future implications. A retrospective analysis of US shocks suggests that tech...... ... Analysis shows that a gen-eralisation of the US earned income tax credit system with consumption tax outpe rforms alternatives of the universal ... ...
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Deposit insurance and credit unions: an international perspective
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore why credit unions might need deposit insurance, how they might respond to its introduction and how this protection mechanism should be designed. The...... ... The analysis suggests that at present a universal blueprint indeposit insurance design may well be unnecessary in combating risk shifting behaviour.Originality/value – This paper helps to fill a ... ...
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Extending conditionality and sanctions to people in work … but who is responsible for low pay?
... ... Advisory Committee, 2017).However, with the introduction of Universal Credit, things are changing.Already recent benefit changes are ... ...
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Time for basic income?
... ... Britain, which concluded by reflecting on the prospects for universal basic income (UBI). (1) In sketching out possible scenarios for British ... their hours cut sharply (who are expected to apply for Universal Credit) and the self-employed (who are only eligible for government support if ... ...
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Speenhamland, automation, and Basic Income: A response.
... ... The modern equivalents are Working Tax Credits and so-called Universal Credit. In Speenhamland the supplement paid out was designed to fill the ... ...
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