Box sets » Welfare spending » Carer's allowance

There are several possible approaches to forecasting benefit spending. In this box we outlined the key issues the modelling of disability benefits needed to address, the three approaches we used to forecast spending, and the strengths and limitations of each, concluding that a combination of approaches was better than reliance on any single one.

Fiscal categories:
Welfare spending    Incapacity and disability benefits    Tax credits    Carer's allowance   

Cross-cutting categories:
Forecast process    Data limitations