The admission from a DWP civil servant – albeit not a senior executive – is the first time that anyone from the department has explicitly stated that it has plans to scrap PIP and combine it with universal credit. The comments were made during a presentation about universal credit given to ...
The new Universal Credit system only partly simplifies this thicket. Each conditional scheme generates a bureaucracy of assessment and the need for constant eligibility monitoring, at vast expense. Moreover, conditional transfers always generate incentive problems. If you go back into work after being ...
A previous example of a financial incentive for children’s structured physical activity implemented and evaluated, at scale, is the Canadian Fitness Tax Credit. Findings showed limited reach to children residing in disadvantaged areas [14]. The tax credit reached 12.3% of the eligible population ...
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