Exploring the impact of welfare conditionality on Roma migrants in the UK

2019 ◽  
pp. 119-148
Author(s):  
Liviu Dinu ◽  
Lisa Scullion
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Social Security System ◽  
Security System ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Market Opportunities ◽  
Perceived Impacts ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Social Security Benefits

The arrival of large numbers of Central and Eastern European migrants to the UK has been met with political and public debate around the perceived impacts on indigenous labour market opportunities coupled with fears about the demands placed on the welfare system. Within this broader migration, the arrival of Roma has triggered particularly prejudicial reactions. However, little is known about how Roma experience the social security system within the UK, particularly within a situation of increasingly conditional rights for European migrants. This chapter begins by highlighting some of the pervasive narratives in relation to Roma that focus on their supposed disproportionate representation within benefits systems and the subsequent responses of Member States to such (mis)representations. Drawing upon interviews with Roma migrants claiming social security benefits in the UK, the chapter then provides insights into how they respond to the conditionality inherent within the UK social security system. The chapter highlights that, contrary to pervasive narratives, claiming benefits appears to be a last resort after multiple job search attempts. Furthermore, welfare conditionality has the potential to lead Roma to disengage with the benefits system altogether and seek informal employment in order to meet their basic needs.

scholarly journals Legal Issues in The Implementation of National Social Security System on Labour in Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 03019
Author(s):  
Tedi Sudrajat ◽  
Siti Kunarti ◽  
Abdul Aziz Nasihuddin
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Social Security System ◽  
Security System ◽  
Safety Assurance ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
Social Security Benefits

The Social Security System in Indonesia has been regulated by the government, and the program is managed by an agency called Social Insurance Administration Organization (BPJS). Associated with the existence of social security functions for workers, its practice presents a gap between what is expected and what is regulated. For this reason, it is therefore necessary to examine, firstly, what kind of legal protection of workers is covered by this national social security system managed in BPJS program and, secondly, what constraints are encountered in its implementation. This research is Juridical Normative one, with normative qualitative data analysis. The research finds that the social security is correlated not only with the welfare of employees who are assessed by the level of wages provided by the organization, rather it is also correlated with other factors in the form of health and safety assurance. In the broader context, social welfare is measured not only when the person is at work and gets social security benefits, rather the measure of his welfare is also applicable when the worker is not working and/or when they retire. On the basis of these, the social security program is an integral aspect of social security to which the government should give a legal protection.

PP140 Cancer And The Burden For Social Security System. Is It Sustainable?

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (S1) ◽  
pp. 121-122
Author(s):  
Simone Russo ◽  
Raffaele Migliorini ◽  
Marco Trabucco ◽  
Francesco Saverio Mennini
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Work Ability ◽  
Social Security System ◽  
Security System ◽  
Percentage Increase ◽  
Percentage Difference ◽  
The Social ◽  
Yearly Average ◽  
Social Security Benefits ◽  
Mean Cost

Introduction:The purpose of the study is to estimate both the number of beneficiaries and the burden of the Disability Insurance (DI) benefits provided for neoplastic diseases (ND) and for five cancer types, focusing on the expenditure by the social security system.Methods:To estimate the current DI benefits and their cost, we analyzed the databases of DI awards and the mean cost per benefit of the Italian National Social Security Institute (INPS) for two types of social security benefits: the disability benefits (DB) for people with reduced work ability and the incapacity pensions (IP) for people without work ability. A probabilistic model with a Monte Carlo simulation was developed in order to estimate the total benefits provided and costs.Results:Between 2009 and 2015, a yearly average was estimated of about 122,000 beneficiaries of DI for cancer. The total estimated expenditure for ND in the seven years, supported and provided by INPS for these social security benefits, amounted to EUR 8.1 billion (corresponding to 27.4 percent of the total expenditure for disability provided by INPS) of which 66.7 percent was associated with DB and the remaining 33.3 percent with IP. The percentage increase related to the costs show that DB have the most significant increase starting from the 2013 with 11.3 percent from 2013 to 2014 and 9.7 percent from 2014 to 2015, while. IP have an increase from 2009 to 2011, with a maximum during 2011, with a percentage difference of 7.6 percent.Conclusions:The incidence and the prevalence of the ND are expected to increase in the coming years in Italy. In order to minimize the consequences of this scenario, rapid access to innovative treatments would reduce the costs borne by the social security system, accompanied by an improvement in the effectiveness of interventions and increase in quality of life for patients.

scholarly journals The uptake of social security benefits among psychiatric day hospital patients

1989 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 626-627 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel S. Allen ◽  
Renate West
Keyword(s):  
Medical Journal ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Social Security System ◽  
Security System ◽  
Day Hospital ◽  
The Social ◽  
Hospital Patients ◽  
Social Security Benefits ◽  
The Impact

A leader in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) last year (Marks, 1988) suggested that the uptake of social security benefits among mentally ill people is low. However, this statement was based on the only data the writer could find – a study of 37 patients conducted in Islington based on the old social security system, prior to April 1988 (Linney & Boswell, 1987). Two weeks later, another BMJ leader (Marcovitch, 1988) bemoaned the fact that insufficient research had been conducted on the impact of changes in the social security system.

scholarly journals COVID-19 and the temporary transformation of the UK social security system

2021 ◽  
pp. 026101832098679
Author(s):  
Richard Machin
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Social Security System ◽  
Security System ◽  
The Self ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
Uk Government ◽  
The Uk

This commentary discusses the implications of the changes made to the social security system by the UK government in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Until the COVID-19 pandemic, the UK government did not veer from its programme of welfare reform. However, emergency legislation made significant concessions including: an increase in the value of the UK’s main means-tested benefit Universal Credit, more favourable eligibility rules for the self-employed, a reduced conditionality regime, and an increase in the level of housing support. This paper argues that although the UK government’s COVID-19 social security response was necessary, it did not go far enough. A temporary lifting of some prejudicial elements of the social security system was welcome but this still leaves an overly complex system characterised by unacceptable delays in payment, inadequate support for many vulnerable groups, and inconsistent experiences for recipients of different benefits.

scholarly journals Lifetime Earnings, Mortality, And Social Security Benefits: Implications For Reform

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan D. Eastman ◽  
Kevin L. Eastman
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Social Security System ◽  
Current Level ◽  
Security System ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mortality Difference ◽  
Lifetime Earnings ◽  
Social Security Benefits

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The Social Security system is facing significant financial challenges, but politicians, economists, and other experts cannot agree on appropriate solutions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Raising taxes and/or cutting benefits are never popular proposals, and competing groups want to protect the poor while at the same time maintain fairness for the more wealthy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Recent studies, such as Cristia (2007), Duggan et al. (2007), and Waldron (2007), have shown a strong correlation between lifetime earnings and mortality, suggesting that differences in life expectancy between the wealthy and the less wealthy may be getting larger, thus eroding the progressivity of the Social Security system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Our results show that for a mortality difference of one or two years, benefit reductions in the range of 2.5% to 16% would be needed to maintain the current level of progressivity for a male living to age 80.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>If the mortality difference grows to four or five years, the benefit reductions would need to be much greater, anywhere from approximately 14% to 31%.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>A reduction in benefits based on lifetime earnings can improve the long-run viability of the Social Security system while maintaining its current level of progressivity.</span></span></p>

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