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The Implementation of Housing Benefit*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

Michael Hill
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Abstract

This article sees the new housing benefit scheme as a policy initiative which presents local authorities, as the implementing agencies, with enormous problems in making a success of the operation of a scheme deeply flawed because of the government's commitment to save staff costs and avoid increases in benefit costs. It looks at the way in which during the policy-making process there was a move away from the ordiginal commitment to ‘unified housing benefit’ and explores the consequences of this for implementation.

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Journal of Social Policy , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , July 1984 , pp. 297 - 320
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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