Non-take up of the supplemental child benefit for children with a disability in Belgium : a mixed-method approach

Abstract: Families with disabled children run a great risk of being poor. Although policies providing poor families with financial benefits should be effective in reducing poverty, the actual effectiveness is often jeopardized by the issue of non‐take up (NTU). Yet, NTU of benefits aimed at disabled children is for the most part uncharted territory. In this article, we fill this gap using a mixed‐methods approach to (a) estimate the magnitude and characteristics of NTU in the Belgian supplemental child benefit by drawing on a large‐scale administrative dataset on childhood disabilities and (b)... Mehr ...