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Evaluating Adequacy: The Potential of Budget Standards*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

Jonathan Bradshaw,
Deborah Mitchell and
Jane Morgan
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Abstract

Since Beveridge, budget standards have been neglected in British social policy research. Empirical effort has concentrated on developing social indicator methods of investigating relative poverty. This paper explores the potential of budget standards for assessing whether the scale rates of supplementary benefit are adequate. Three applications of budget standard methodology are presented.

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Journal of Social Policy , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , April 1987, pp. 165 - 181
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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