Abstract
‘Improving work incentives’ heads up one chapter of the Government’s Green Paper Quality and Choice: A Decent Home for All, which was put out for consultation earlier this year. By November we should know which of the proposals have been implemented (as some do not require legislative changes) and which are contained in the Housing White Paper. Elizabeth Bray, who is a campaigning colleague, has sent a response on behalf of disabled people. She recommends that work incentives are improved by raising the Housing Benefit disregard (at £15 since 1983) and reducing Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit tapers of 85 pence in the £1. She urges the politicians to disregard the Disabled Persons Tax Credit for the assessment of Housing Benefit and thereby to tackle the marginal deduction rate of 93% in the £1 for disabled people (yes, that is not a misprint, 93 pence of every £1 earned is lost in the combined DPTC taper of 55% and subsequent Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit tapers).The Green Paper does not propose to address this matter. The summary states:
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