Lack of knowledge of eligibility for benefits

Name(s): 
Lack of awareness of available welfare benefits
Unawareness of welfare benefits
Ignorance of available welfare benefits
Unclaimed social benefits
Nature 
Lack of awareness of available government benefits covers areas such as social security allowances before retirement, small business loans and government guarantees for business start-up loans, income supplements, educational benefits, unemployment job training, children's and family allowances, free legal assistance, eligibility for paid government jobs, home improvement grants, rent allowances, and medical, optical and dental care allowances.
Incidence 
It has been estimated that every year, thousands of millions of the £68 thousand million on offer from the UK government go unclaimed. In certain categories of benefit, the take-up rate is only one-third of those eligible.
Broader 
Lack of knowledge
Denial of right to economic security
Limited availability of functional information
Ineffective delivery of basic human resource services
Narrower 
Unawareness of health benefits
Related 
Unclaimed assets
Aggravates 
Consumer dissatisfaction
Unethical use of social welfare benefits
Aggravated by 
Lack of job satisfaction
Unrecognized input benefits
Incomplete understanding of new societal service systems
Deprivation of government benefits for political purposes
Strategy(ies) 
Increasing awareness of welfare benefits
Supporting right to benefit from social welfare services
Claiming social benefits
Providing sufficient information on eligibility for benefits
Abstaining from knowledge of eligibility for benefits
Value(s) 
Awareness
Knowledge
Welfare
Ignorance
Lack
Unaware
Unclaimed
Unsociable
Type 
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems