Out of Step or Leading the Parade? Public Opinion about Income Support Policy in Alberta, 1995 and 2004

2008 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 154-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amber Gazso ◽  
Harvey Krahn
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Income Support ◽  
Support Policy

Income support policy in Canada and the UK: different, but much the same

2010 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 673-686 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Malacrida
Keyword(s):  
Income Support ◽  
Support Policy ◽  
The Uk

Distrusting doctors’ evidence: a qualitative study of disability income support policy makers

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley McAllister ◽  
Stephen R. Leeder
Keyword(s):  
Diagnostic Tests ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Income Support ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
Diagnostic Certainty ◽  
Support Policy ◽  
Disability Income

Objective The aim of the present study was to describe how policy makers (bureaucrats and politicians) in Australia and Ontario (Canada) perceive evidence provided by doctors to substantiate applications for disability income support (DIS) by their patients with mental illnesses. Because many mental illnesses (e.g. depression) lack diagnostic tests, their existence and effects are more difficult to demonstrate than most somatic illnesses. Methods Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 45 informants, all influential in the design of the assessment of DIS programs. The informants were subcategorised into advocates, legal representatives, doctors (general practitioners (GPs) and specialists (e.g. psychiatrists)), policy insiders and researchers. Informants were found through snowball sampling. Following the principles of grounded theory, data collection and analysis occurred in tandem. Results Informants expressed some scepticism about doctors’ evidence. Informants perceived that doctors could, due to lack of diagnostic certainty, ‘write these things [evidence] however [they] want to’. Psychiatrists, perceived as having more time and skills, were considered as providing more trustworthy evidence than GPs. Conclusion Doctors, providing evidence to support applications, play an important role in determining disability. However, policy makers perceive doctors’ evidence about mental illnesses as less trustworthy than evidence about somatic illnesses. This affects decisions by government adjudicators. What is known about the topic? Doctors (GPs and psychiatrists) are often asked to provide evidence to substantiate a DIS application for those with mental illnesses. We know little about the perception of this evidence by the policy makers who consider these applications. What does this paper add? Policy makers distrust doctors’ evidence in relation to mental illnesses. This is partly because many mental illnesses lack diagnostic proof, in contrast with evidence for somatic conditions, where the disability is often visible and proven through diagnostic tests. Furthermore, GPs’ evidence is considered less trustworthy than that of psychiatrists. What are the implications for practitioners? Although doctors’ evidence is often required, the utility of their evidence is limited by policy makers’ perceptions.

scholarly journals Uncertain Subjects: Shaping Disabled Women’s Lives Through Income Support Policy

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 78-103
Author(s):  
Sally A. Kimpson
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Conditions ◽  
Support Program ◽  
Income Support ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Disabled Women ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Support Policy ◽  
Disability Income

This article provides a critical reading of one aspect of the “third mobilization of transinstitutionalization” (Haley & Jones, 2018), focused on how power is exercised through the B.C. government income support program (or the ambiguously-named B.C. Benefits), shaping the embodied lives of women living with chronic physical and mental impairments. I research and write as a woman living with a disabling chronic illness whose explicit focus is power: how it is enacted and what it produces in the everyday lives of women with disabling chronic conditions living on income support. I too have been the recipient of disability income support. Thus, my accounts are ‘interested.’ My writing seeks to create a disruptive reading that destabilizes common-sense notions about disabled women securing provincial income support benefits, in particular in British Columbia (B.C.), interviewed as part of my doctoral research. Despite public claims by the B.C. government to foster the independence, community participation, and citizenship of disabled people in B.C., the intersection of government policy and practices and how they are read and taken up by disabled women discipline them in ways that produce profound uncertainty in their lives, such that these women become uncertain subjects (Kimpson, 2015).

Income Support Policy in France

2017 ◽  
pp. 67-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michel Dollé
Keyword(s):  
Income Support ◽  
Support Policy

scholarly journals The Changing Safety Net for Low-Income Parents and Their Children: Structural or Cyclical Changes in Income Support Policy?

Demography ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 189-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bradley Hardy ◽  
Timothy Smeeding ◽  
James P. Ziliak
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Income Support ◽  
Support Policy

scholarly journals Government’s Income Support Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Fletcher
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Welfare Policy ◽  
Income Support ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Contentious Issue ◽  
Support Policy ◽  
The Welfare State

Income support policy was already a contentious issue before the arrival of Covid-19, but it has assumed increased significance as a result of the job losses and disruption to people’s earnings following the border closures, trade disruption and the period of nationwide lockdown. This article documents the government’s income support and social welfare responses to the pandemic and places them in the context of the pre-existing debates around welfare policy. The article finishes with a brief discussion of possible future directions for the welfare state.

Economic Growth and Income Support Policy in Australia

1986 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 268-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. P. COX
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Income Support ◽  
Support Policy
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