This book presents an academic and a practical aspect on managing pension funds to clarify the global debate on social security. The authors establish the basic choices in designating any system to help policy makers develop the system that achieves their many objectives. They examine reforms in Latin America to highlight flaws and to estimate the true cost of these reforms and factors affecting these costs. The authors then discuss how the United States and Spain can implement robust systems in...
Improving the Social Security Representative Payee Program
More than 7 million recipients of Social Security benefits have a representative payee-a person or an organization-to receive or manage their benefits. These payees manage Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance funds for retirees, surviving spouses, children, and the disabled, and they manage Supplemental Security Income payments to disabled, blind, or elderly people with limited income and resources. More than half of the beneficiaries with a representative payee are minor children; the re...
More than a decade on from their conception, this book reflects on the consequences of income management policies in Australia and New Zealand. Drawing on a three-year study, it explores the lived experience of those for whom core welfare benefits and services are dependent on government conceptions of ‘responsible’ behaviour. It analyses whether officially claimed positive intentions and benefits of the schemes are outweighed by negative impacts that deepen the poverty and stigma of marginalis...
Screen-obsessed: Parenting In The Digital Age
by Wonsun Shin and May O Lwin
Screen-obsessed: Parenting in the Digital Age is the first book solely focusing on parental supervision of children's media use. This book distills important information regarding how parents can effectively guide their offspring living in the multimedia environment. This book discusses an extensive range of theories, issues, and subjects of parental mediation. Readers will discover how parental mediation works, new and traditional theoretical facets, and how this knowledge can be applied in var...
International Social Security Standards in the European Union (Social Europe, #28)
by Tineke Dijkhoff
Within the European Union, social security basically remains a national field of competence. The lack of common norms has paved the way for a large disparity in social protection between EU Member States, which is not conducive to the European single market. Moreover, it may lead to an increase in poverty and social exclusion in some regions and intensify economic competition between Member States on the basis of labour costs. At the same time, almost all EU Member States are bound by one or mo...
Reflected Rays of Light Upon Freemasonry
by William Garey and James Stevenson
Human Rights and Armed Forces in Low Intensity Conflicts
by Col Ks Sheoran
This volume, the second of a twin-set grouping articles based on papers presented at seminars in Sigtuna, Sweden 1994-1996, deals with the largest spending programmes of the welfare state - old age pensions and medical care - and their place within the debate about the desirability and affordability of modern social programmes. The chapters are divided into four parts. The first deals with general welfare, sociology and economics; part two groups papers dealing with old age pension reform in a v...
Examines the largest social program in the United States primarily designed to meet the income needs of retired and disabled workers.
Pension Puzzles (American Sociological Association's Rose Series in Sociology)
by Melissa Hardy and Lawrence Hazelrigg
This book identifies specific changes to bring U.S. social policy in accord with the Information Age of the 21st century, in contrast to the policy infrastructure of industrial America. Welfare State 3.0: Social Policy after the Pandemic acknowledges the existing social infrastructure, considers viable options, and provides supporting data to suggest social policy reform by four strategies: consolidating programs, harmonizing applications, expanding equity, and conducting experiments. The book...