Women & Social Security/Transfer Payments Law

Carney, Terry

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Women & Social Security/Transfer Payments Law

Terry Carney

University of Sydney - Faculty of Law

October 6, 2010

WOMEN AND THE LAW IN AUSTRALIA, pp. 424-440, P. Easteal, ed., LexisNexis Butterworths: Sydney, 2010
Sydney Law School Research Paper No. 10/93

Abstract:
Women face special complications in securing social security entitlements. This chapter reviews some selected aspects of Australian social security law and policy to isolate the extent to which discrimination and disadvantage is a product of social security rules or external social factors. It is concluded that current rules create difficulties mainly due to external social forces, but it draws together a number of practical suggestions which social security recipients and their legal advisors might take to secure entitlements.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 21

Keywords: social security, gender discrimination, welfare rights, administration, law

JEL Classification: I30, J71, K10, K30

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Date posted: October 6, 2010

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Carney, Terry, Women & Social Security/Transfer Payments Law (October 6, 2010). WOMEN AND THE LAW IN AUSTRALIA, pp. 424-440, P. Easteal, ed., LexisNexis Butterworths: Sydney, 2010; Sydney Law School Research Paper No. 10/93. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1688150

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Terry Carney (Contact Author)

University of Sydney - Faculty of Law ( email )

Faculty of Law Building, F10
The University of Sydney
Sydney, NSW 2006
Australia