TY  - JOUR
PB  - Elsevier
TI  - Association between individual level characteristics and take-up of a Minimum Income Guarantee for Pensioners: Panel Data Analysis using data from the British Household Panel survey 1999?2002
JF  - Social Sciences & Humanities Open
UR  - https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/319016/
ID  - enlighten319016
A1  - Brown, Heather
A1  - Albani, Viviana
A1  - Munford, Luke
A1  - Sutton, Matt
A1  - McHardy, Fiona
A1  - Silverman, Eric
A1  - Richiardi, Matteo
A1  - Pearce, Anna
A1  - Heppenstall, Alison
A1  - Meier, Petra
A1  - Thomson, Rachel
A1  - Katikireddi, Srinivasa
AV  - public
N2  - A Minimum Income Guarantee (MIG) ensures people have a minimum amount of income for essentials such as healthy food, housing, health care, social and digital networks to support health and well-being. MIGs could be a useful tool to reduce inequalities. A MIG will only be effective if those who are eligible take it up. The aim of this paper is to explore how individual characteristics were associated with take-up of a MIG for pensioners (aged 60+ for women and aged 65+ for men) in England. The data used is from the British Household Panel Survey including 9430 observations from 1893 people, from 1999 to 2002. We estimated a random effects logistic regression. Results show that women were less likely to claim than men (OR ranging from 0.17 [95% CI 0.10?0.29]-0.73 [95% CI 0.40?1.34]), and couples were less likely to claim (OR ranging from 0.04 [95% CI 0.03?0.06]-0.01 [95%CI 0.01?0.02]) than single person households. People with better mental health (OR 1.05 95% CI 1.02?1.08), older pensioners (75+) (OR ranging from 1.98 [95% CI 1.52?2.59]-2.81 [95%CI 2.16?3.67]), those who were registered disabled (OR 4.03 95% CI 2.50?6.52), and those with no formal qualification (OR ranging from 1.74 [95%CI 0.93?3.26]-2.07 [95% CI 1.22?3.51]) were more likely to claim. Understanding who is likely to claim MIGs is important to avoid social security policy inadvertently increasing inequalities.
Y1  - 2024///
KW  - Social policy
KW  -  health inequalities
KW  -  older people
KW  -  social determinants
KW  -  health.
SN  - 2590-2911
VL  - 9
N1  - This study is funded by the NIHR PHR (NIHR154243). The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care. HB is also supported by the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration for the North West Coast (NIHR200182). LAM acknowledge funding from the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration for Greater Manchester (NIHR200174). ES, PM, AH, and SVK acknowledge funding from the UK Medical Research Council (MC_UU_00022/2) and Scottish Government Chief Scientist Office (SPHSU17). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
ER  -