By M. Seeleib-Kaiser
This edited quantity provides new empirical facts of far-reaching changes to welfare states globally, which have replaced the bounds of the 'public' and 'private' area in the combined economies of welfare. numerous modes of coverage intervention are investigated, delivering a nuanced account of reforms long ago decade.
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After having discussed some of the major changes in regards to social services, I will now turn to pension and employment policies. The Conservatives cut the (brief – since the 1970s) link between pensions and earnings, and wished to abolish the (similarly young) Second Earnings Related Pension Scheme (SERPS). In the end SERPS was reduced rather than abolished, and members were encouraged to opt out of the scheme and transfer into private pensions. By 1993 more than 5 million, rather than the expected 500 000, people – encouraged by some optimistic pension projections – had taken this option.
3 Although the ‘fiscal’ or ‘tax’ welfare state has always been important, its profile has increased under New Labour with the introduction of ‘tax credits’ – such as Children’s Tax Credit and the Pension Tax Credit. These have been introduced in a variety of changing terms, and their complexity has baffled both administrators and officials, resulting in significant ‘readjustments’, or over- and under-payments (cf. Sinfield, 2007). Although occupational welfare has long been recognized (Brunsdon and May, 2007), it has recently become a major issue with a perceived difference between some private and public sector workers.
It can be argued that, in terms of input/expenditure, the welfare state is resilient or expanding. Generally welfare expenditure has increased, and increased significantly in sectors such as health care and education. As Castles (2004, p. 71) puts it, changes in welfare state expenditure have been ‘relatively modest’, and downsizing has been counterbalanced by upsizing in other areas. However, as argued above, analyses based on direct expenditure are only part of the picture. Burchardt (1997) suggested a framework for examining changes in the mixed economy of welfare, and found that Martin Powell 29 changes since 1979 had been relatively small.