Review Of International Evidence On The Cost Of Disability

The report presents rigorous evidence from a U.S. demonstration, that allowances can improve the lives of people with disabilities, relative to programmes that deliver agency services financed directly by the government. It also finds that, of all definitions of the extra cost of disability encountered in the literature, the ‘expenditure equivalence’ definition – the amount of additional income a person with a disability would require to achieve the same standard of living as a similar person without a disability – stands out as the most salient for assessing the adequacy of allowances.