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A survey of the GB benefit system

Andrew Hood and Agnes Norris Keiller
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This paper describes all the main benefits in the GB system, giving details of rates and allowances, as well as numbers and types of claimants and levels of expenditure.

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ISBN 978-1-903274-99-6
Publisher Institute for Fiscal Studies
DOI 10.1920/bn.ifs.2000.0013
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