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Social Security and the Transition to Adulthood

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 January 2010

Neville Harris
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Abstract

Social security provision for young people has been cut back by a succession of reforms since 1980 culminating in the almost complete withdrawal of income support from 16 and 17 year olds by the Social Security Act 1988. Conservative government policy seems to indicate a desire that families assume greater responsibility for young people until either they find work or reach their mid-twenties. It is assumed that until young unemployed people reach this stage they are dependants, to be treated as such by the social security system (and, to a large extent, by the training schemes). But the twentieth century has seen a progressive growth of young people's independence and expectations of it among young people and their families. The enforced dependency produced by recent government policy runs counter to this trend. More importantly, it may be having a profound effect on the progress of the transition to adulthood.

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Survey Article
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Journal of Social Policy , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , October 1988 , pp. 501 - 523
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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