Universality and Selectivity in Income Support: An Assessment of the Issues

by Sheila Shaver

First published in 1997, this report examines the classic social policy question of whether pensions should be paid only to those with relatively few other resources, so that scarce funds go to the people who need them most, or whether it is more just, and pensions are more willingly funded, when everyone can expect to get one in their turn.

Since the 1980s, the scale of social expenditure has come into question in most advanced industrial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138390291
• ISBN13: 9781138390294
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 160 Pages