{"id":1081,"date":"2012-11-20T22:07:06","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T22:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2021-03-02T13:49:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T13:49:35","slug":"benefits-stigma-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2012\/11\/20\/benefits-stigma-in-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefits stigma in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/files\/2012\/11\/Stigma-cover.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1083\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/files\/2012\/11\/Stigma-cover-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>A new report investigates the stigma of claiming benefits &#8211; how widespread it is, what causes it (and in particular the role of the media), and its effects. The report was written by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr\/staff\/academic\/baumberg.html\">Ben Baumberg<\/a> from the University at Kent, along with two independent policy experts: Kate Bell and Declan Gaffney, and funded by the benefits advice service <a href=\"http:\/\/www.turn2us.org.uk\/\">Turn2us<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more, you can look at:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The research team&#8217;s blog posts on the report &#8211; on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/inequalitiesblog.wordpress.com\/2012\/06\/12\/perceived-fraud-in-the-benefits-system\">perceived fraud in the benefits system<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/economics\/2012\/11\/scroungers-fraudsters-and-parasites-how-media-coverage-affects-our-view-benefit-cl\">the role of the media<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Other people writing about the report &#8211; in particular \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/society\/2012\/nov\/20\/scrounger-stigma-poor-people-benefits\">the Guardian<\/a>\u00a0covered it and featured it on their\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/news\/datablog\/2012\/nov\/20\/benefits-stigma-newspapers-report-welfare?CMP=twt_fd\">Datablog<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Press releases on the report are available from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.turn2us.org.uk\/about_us\/media_centre\/news_archive\/benefits_stigma.aspx\">Turn2us<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/stories\/benefits-stigma-baumberg\/2012\">University of Kent<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>And finally, you can read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.turn2us.org.uk\/about_us\/media_centre\/news_archive\/benefits_stigma.aspx\">report itself<\/a>! And also\u00a0the &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.turn2us.org.uk\/pdf\/Mythbusting.pdf\">mythbusting&#8217; briefing<\/a>\u00a0that goes alongside it. (On Ben&#8217;s homepage (www.benbaumberg.com) you&#8217;ll also find the appendices).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report investigates the stigma of claiming benefits &#8211; how widespread it is, what causes it (and in particular the role of the media), &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2012\/11\/20\/benefits-stigma-in-britain\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2904,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[237353,1],"tags":[124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2904"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1085,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions\/1085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}