Modelling the Take-up of Means-tested Benefits: the Case of Housing Benefits in the United Kingdom

Richard Blundell (), Vanessa Fry and Ian Walker ()

Economic Journal, 1987, vol. 98, issue 390, 58-74

Abstract: Official estimates of housing benefit take-up rates suggest that up to two million families in the United Kingdom ma y not be receiving the help with their housing costs to which they ar e entitled. The authors' interest in the take-up of means tested bene fits is therefore motivated by two concerns. The first is the governm ent revenue implications of a change to benefit entitlement levels. T he second relates to the welfare of individuals who fail to claim the ir entitlement to benefit. In this paper, the authors investigate the relationship between the take-up of means-tested housing benefit, in dividual socioeconomic characteristics, and the level of entitlement. Copyright 1987 by Royal Economic Society.

Date: 1987
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