- Title Pages
- List of figures and tables
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on contributors
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One Introduction -
Two Care and gender: have the arguments for recognising care work now been won?1 -
Three Research on care: what impact on policy and planning? -
Four ‘Pseudo-democracy and spurious precision’: knowledge dilemmas in the new welfare state -
Five The costs of caring for a disabled child -
Six Disability, poverty and living standards: reviewing Australian evidence and policies1 -
Seven Consumers without money: consumption patterns and citizenship among low-income families in Scandinavian welfare societies -
Eight Affordable credit for low-income households -
Nine Carers and employment in a work-focused welfare state -
Ten Paying family caregivers: evaluating different models -
Eleven Developments in Austrian care arrangements: women between free choice and informal care -
Twelve When informal care becomes a paid job: the case of Personal Assistance Budgets in Flanders -
Thirteen Better off in work? Work, security and welfare for lone mothers -
Fourteen Reciprocity, lone parents and state subsidy for informal childcare -
Fifteen Helping out at home: children's contributions to sustaining work and care in lone-mother families -
Sixteen Making connections: supporting new forms of engagement by marginalised groups -
Seventeen Independent living: the role of the disability movement in the development of government policy -
Eighteen Securing the dignity and quality of life of older citizens -
Nineteen Conclusions - References
- Index
Disability, poverty and living standards: reviewing Australian evidence and policies1
Disability, poverty and living standards: reviewing Australian evidence and policies1
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- (p.63) Six Disability, poverty and living standards: reviewing Australian evidence and policies1
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- Cash and care
- Author(s):
Peter Saunders
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- Policy Press
This chapter examines the circumstances of households that contain disabled members in the context of proposed reforms to the main income support programme for disabled people, the Disability Support Pension. After briefly reviewing the Australian policy context, it compares the economic circumstances of those who have a disability or long-term health condition with those who do not. It then reviews community attitudes to mutual obligation for unemployed people and disabled people (a major theme in the welfare reform debate). The final section summarises the main conclusions of the chapter.
Keywords: households, disabled people, income support programme, Disability Support Pension, welfare reform
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- Title Pages
- List of figures and tables
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on contributors
-
One Introduction -
Two Care and gender: have the arguments for recognising care work now been won?1 -
Three Research on care: what impact on policy and planning? -
Four ‘Pseudo-democracy and spurious precision’: knowledge dilemmas in the new welfare state -
Five The costs of caring for a disabled child -
Six Disability, poverty and living standards: reviewing Australian evidence and policies1 -
Seven Consumers without money: consumption patterns and citizenship among low-income families in Scandinavian welfare societies -
Eight Affordable credit for low-income households -
Nine Carers and employment in a work-focused welfare state -
Ten Paying family caregivers: evaluating different models -
Eleven Developments in Austrian care arrangements: women between free choice and informal care -
Twelve When informal care becomes a paid job: the case of Personal Assistance Budgets in Flanders -
Thirteen Better off in work? Work, security and welfare for lone mothers -
Fourteen Reciprocity, lone parents and state subsidy for informal childcare -
Fifteen Helping out at home: children's contributions to sustaining work and care in lone-mother families -
Sixteen Making connections: supporting new forms of engagement by marginalised groups -
Seventeen Independent living: the role of the disability movement in the development of government policy -
Eighteen Securing the dignity and quality of life of older citizens -
Nineteen Conclusions - References
- Index
