Containing the cost of social security : the international context

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Containing the cost of social security : the international context

Department of Social Security

HMSO, 1993

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Description

All the member states of the EC are currently facing sharply escalating social escurity and health costs, because of changes in demographic and social structures (in particular ageing populations), changes in the level and distribution of affluence and changes in the nature of the labour market. This paper looks first at overall strategies to balance income and expenditure, and then at the specific measures in particular benefit areas.

Table of Contents

  • Strategies to balance income and expenditure
  • specific measures to control expenditure - uprating, unemployment benefit, sickness and disability benefits, pensions, family benefits, social assistance, combating fraud
  • health care. Appendices: expenditure on social security in the EC and other selected OECD countries
  • social security systems in the EC
  • social security cost-containment in other selected OECD countries.

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  • NCID
    BA23214696
  • ISBN
    • 0117620939
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    70 p.
  • Size
    30 cm
  • Classification
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