Studies have suggested that key strategy to improve utilization of the RSBY scheme is by ensuring that the adequate information on entitlements and benefits reaches marginalized beneficiaries through proper awareness raising measures [13, 27 30].
Participants were uniform in their views about the characteristics of such services - that they should be proactive, offer practical help with information about entitlements and active assistance to claim.
This register contains individual-level information on entitlements to special reimbursement for the cost of medication for chronic illnesses (hypertension, cardiac failure, ischemic heart disease, diabetes, asthma or other chronic obstructive lung disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and severe mental disorders), and the date when the special reimbursement was granted.
And if people are prevented from making homelessness applications, given incorrect information about their entitlement to apply, and told they are not a priority, is it any wonder they don't show up in DCLG statistics?
A reasonable minority of the providers (26%) reported that information on full entitlement was provided.
The date of death was based on Medicare entitlement information included in PEDSF.
