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AN EVALUATION OF THE MOBILITY ALLOWANCE FOR FAMILIES WITH HANDICAPPED CHILDREN
Author(s) -
COOKE KENNETH R.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
child: care, health and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.832
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1365-2214
pISSN - 0305-1862
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2214.1980.tb00158.x
Subject(s) - allowance (engineering) , beneficiary , business , psychology , demographic economics , economics , operations management , finance
Summary A variety of methods were used to evaluate the mobility allowance as a social security benefit for families with handicapped children. A study of the policy development showed that the mobility allowance was not the outcome of a rationally‐planned and coherent strategy designed to meet need. A survey of families with a child beneficiary showed that the allowance helped to sustain the child's existing mobility, but did little to increase it. A study of the criteria according to which the allowance is allocated suggested that there is a case to be made for paying the allowance from the age of two rather than from the age of five.