ABSTRACT
The agenda crystallised around children and pensioners and after the introduction of Minimum Income Guarantee in 1999 the value of this benefit rose sharply. There is a need to cast the net rather wider than the Minimum Income Guarantee or Pension Credit to the broader set of income maintenance policies in which these operate. It was found that bereavement was the strongest predictor of coming into receipt of Minimum Income Guarantee but that other factors, relating to income change, also had predictive value. If it is possible to verify the Family Resources Survey data with Minimum Income Guarantee it should also be possible to do the same with other benefits. If Attendance Allowance were fully taken up, then more pensioners would have been entitled to Minimum Income Guarantee through the disability premium. The chapter also presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book.
