| Housing Benefit Reform .The UK has a complicated system of benefits for housing payments. While demand-side subsidies these are of great assistance in making housing affordable for those on low incomes they also create poverty and unemployment traps as people seek to move into work or work longer hours. In "Hope for Housing Benefit" Daniel Brewer from Pivot sets out a four year programme for gradually reforming the Housing Benefit system published by Pivot | By Pivot. , UK . | Welfare and Social Security Policy Resource. |
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| Child Poverty in Britain and Germany This report studies patterns and trends in child poverty in Britain and Germany. Unusually, it uses not only a cross-section approach (measuring who and how many are poor at any given time, and comparing these maps of poverty at different moments); but also longitudinal studies of individuals' poverty "careers", and the trigger events associated with entry into and exit from poverty. By Stephen Jenkins, Christian Schluter, Gert Wagner. | By AGF,Germany, UK. | Welfare and Social Security Policy Resource. |
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