Means-Tested Long-Term Care and Family Transfers

Helmuth Cremer and Pierre Pestieau

German Economic Review, 2018, vol. 19, issue 3, 351-364

Abstract: One of the pervasive problems with means-tested public long-term care programs is their inability to prevent individuals who could afford private long-term services from taking advantage of public care. They often manage to elude the means-test net through ‘strategic impoverishment’. We show in a simple model how this problem comes about, how it affects welfare and how it can be mitigated.

Keywords: Long-term care; means-testing; strategic impoverishment; opting out; public insurance; altruism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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