SOCIAL SECURITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE PRESS NOTICE
Date: 16 July 2009
NEW PUBLICATION BY THE SOCIAL SECURITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE: RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM
The Social Security Advisory Committee (SSAC) has published a new paper in its Occasional Paper series. The report, 'Rights and Responsibilities in the Social Security System', was commissioned by the SSAC and produced by Dr Julia Griggs and Ms Fran Bennett of the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of Oxford. The report draws on discussions with stakeholders at SSAC's annual Stakeholder Seminar in November 2008.
The paper provides an overview of the development of rights and responsibilities in the UK social security system and elsewhere, describes current and future policy in the UK, and summarises key evidence on the effectiveness of conditionality and benefit sanctions. The paper also discusses some of the issues that are raised when proposals are put forward to change the balance of rights and responsibilities in the social security system, especially by deepening or widening the responsibilities of claimants through an extension of conditionality.
The report, Rights and Responsibilities in the Social Security System is available here in PDF format.