Housing Assistance Payment: Potential impacts on financial incentives to work

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Since March 2017, a new income-related housing support for those with a long-term housing need called Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) has been available throughout the state. This paper examines the potential impact on financial work incentives of transferring long-run Rent Supplement recipients onto HAP with tenants' rental contributions assessed through a national Differential Rents scheme, initially proposed by the Housing Agency but yet to be implemented. While such a system would strengthen the financial incentive for most long-term Rent Supplement claimants to be in full-time paid work, a small minority would continue to face quite weak incentives. This is driven by the receipt of multiple means-tested benefits - in particular, jobseekers allowance and one-parent family payment - which results in some low-income individuals facing very high effective marginal tax rates from relatively low levels of earnings.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: ESRI Working Paper ; No. 610

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets ; Pollution Control Adoption and Costs; Distributional Effects; Employment Effects ; Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: General‡
• Subject: regulatory compliance ; farmer behaviour ; nitrates ; Ireland

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Roantree, Barra ; Callan, Tim ; Savage, Michael ; Walsh, John
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI)
• (where): Dublin
• (when): 2019

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/193947
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET