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Understanding social security: Issues for policy and practice (Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice) by J Millar; Social Policy Association (Great Britain) is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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In an increasingly risky world the need for social security support is greater than ever. Benefits and tax credits aim to provide protection against economic risks, help families with the costs of bringing up children, enable people to save for retirement, and provide support in old age. Key goals are to redistribute income to alleviate poverty and help people maintain living standards across the lifecourse. Reform of the social security and tax systems has been at the heart of the UK Labour government's aspirations to modernise the welfare state since 1997 with major changes in both policy and administration. This second edition of the important text, Understanding Social Security, reviews these policy developments, giving readers the information and analytical tools to make sense of policy debates and reforms and to evaluate options for the future. The chapters have been extensively updated since the first edition, with new chapters on social security reform, inequalities and social security, and the new 'welfare market'. The main topics covered the social security safety net racism, ethnicity, migration social security governance global social security social security and the li

Author

J Millar; Social Policy Association (Great Britain)

Publisher

Policy Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781847421876

Subjects

Management, Business