Publisher's Synopsis
Amidst growing concern over the increasing cost of social security provision for long term sickness and disabled people, this report re-examines the four principles established by the Social Security Advisory Committee in its 1988 report "Benefits for Disabled People: A Strategy for Change". This re-evaluation demonstrates the ever increasing complexity of the system - which has developed as a result of incremental changes designed to enhance the targeting of benefits. This report argues that the original principles designed to determine the nature of provision have become obscured and that these principles need to be reviewed for the future.
