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Guiding principles for social security policy: outcomes from a bottom-up approach

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  • Orton, Michael
  • Summers, Kate
  • Morris, Rosa

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Covid-19 has highlighted the inadequacy of UK social security but also the lack of consensus among progressive actors about what would be a better system. One way forward is to focus on the principles that should underpin social security. We present outcomes from a project in which principles were considered by a panel of Expert by Experience benefit claimants. We argue that while scholars often engage in descriptively identifying social security principles in existing policy, the bottom-up approach presented here offers a way of generating normative principles to guide an improved future system. We identify key contributions of this bottom-up approach relating to: the critical importance of principles as a guide to the fundamental purpose of social security, and policy making; the relationship between the treatment of claimants and benefit levels as co-dependent; and how a bottom-up process can produce results that engage with and contribute holistically to the debate.

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  • Orton, Michael & Summers, Kate & Morris, Rosa, 2022. "Guiding principles for social security policy: outcomes from a bottom-up approach," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 113617, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  • Handle: RePEc:ehl:lserod:113617
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    1. Pascale Bourquin & Jonathan Cribb & Tom Waters & Xiaowei Xu, 2019. "Why has in-work poverty risen in Britain?," IFS Working Papers W19/12, Institute for Fiscal Studies.
    2. Summers, Kate & Young, David, 2020. "Universal simplicity? The alleged simplicity of Universal Credit from administrative and claimant perspectives," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 105032, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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    Keywords

    data and research; qualitative; social protection and security; welfare policy;
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    JEL classification:

    • J1 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics
    • E6 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook

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