Independent analysis · 2026
Why eligible people do not claim
Where eligible people drop out between awareness and receipt.
- Where
- Independent analysis
- Role
- Independent analyst
- Period
- 2026
- Methods
- Administrative burden · behavioural framework
- Output
- Six-stage framework from awareness to receipt, with hypotheses kept separate from published evidence.
Eligibility is not a claim. Sequence after the administrative-burden literature (Herd and Moynihan) and the Indian welfare fieldwork on this site.
AwarenessDoes the person know the programme exists?
EligibilityDoes she believe it includes her?
IntentionIs it worth a day?
ApplicationDocuments, intermediaries, digital gates.
CompletionBiometrics, corrections, a file that does not stall.
ReceiptMoney or grain in hand. The stage most dashboards should care about.