title: Income support. Shifting sands of social insecurity.
abstract: The 1988 Social Security Act and subsequent tinkering with the means-tested benefits system has made no difference at all to overall poverty levels. Beth Lakhani reviews the changes since 1988, and predicts more of the same--only worse.
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authors: Lakhani
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D011203:Poverty; D012943:Social Security / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006113:United Kingdom