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KMID : 1001320200470040119
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Social Welfare Policy
2020 Volume.47 No. 4 p.119 ~ p.156
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A Qualitative Study on the Non-take-up of Public Assistance Benefits - Focusing on the Female Single Parent in Poverty -
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Park Song-Yi
Kang Hae-Rin
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Abstract
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Families of female single parents are still on the margin of bare subsistence although various policy alternatives for non-take-up have been proposed since 2014. This study, therefore, aims to investigate the multifaceted experiences of female single parents who have been used or tried to use public assistance benefits.
The results of this study show that the female single parents in poverty have been experiencing barriers to public assistance benefits in various aspects. First, the non-take-up of cash benefits are caused by the barriers to inclusiveness and sufficiency. In terms of barriers to inclusiveness, the problems such as the complexity of the public assistance system, the policy experiences of stigmatization, the unrealistic rules of ‘family support obligation’, and the difficulties to proving the working incapacity have made single parents give up whole application process. In terms of barriers to sufficiency, the participants of this study revealed that they have experienced anxiety raising their children due to the insufficient cash benefits and also that they suffered from lack of timely and suitable housing supports and the insufficient information related to housing support policy. Second, the non-take-up of service benefits was analysed into two types: ‘non-perceived/accessibility’ and ‘unsatisfactory’ non-take-up. In the aspects of ‘non-perceived/accessibility non-take-up’, the non-take-up was occurred when the participants perceived that it is difficult to inquire sufficient information about the policy and programs and also that it is restricted to use child care services. Last, it is found from this study that ‘unsatisfactory non-take-up’ was stemmed from the way the goods and services were delivered and also from the inappropriate censorship and discipline perpetrated in the welfare facilities for single parent families. With the results, various improvements to public assistance policy for female single parents in poverty have been proposed.
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KEYWORD
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Public assistance programs, Non-take-up, Unmet need, Female single parent in poverty, Qualitative research
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