Financial Impacts of Welfare Reform - Illustrative Working Age Case Studies
This paper outlines some of the changes from the UK government’s welfare reforms, and sets out their financial impacts through case studies of hypothetical working age households. It seeks to inform Scottish Government work on welfare reform mitigation by illustrating the kinds of specific impacts the various reforms are having, and identifying potential ‘winners and losers’ of the reforms.
Annex A - Benefits included in the TABOSH model
The TABOSH looks at the income received by a household from earnings taking into account taxes, National insurance contributions, Child Benefit, Tax Credits, Income Support/Jobseekers Allowance, Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit.
The following household characteristics can be changed to show how net income and benefit entitlement changes.
- Household composition - couple or single adult
- Number and age of children
- Childcare costs
- Home rented in the social rented or private rented sector
- Housing costs
- Local authority in which the household is resident
- Council tax band
- Wages
- Hours worked
- Whether over-occupying
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