The Covid-19 pandemic created extraordinary conditions for social protection systems globally, with both material and discursive implications. In the UK, these unprecedented circumstances led to an influx of (first-time) social security claims, expectations of increased social solidarity and more positive public discussion around benefits. One might expect this to affect attitudes towards claiming. This article focuses on the accounts of claimants themselves , and how they conceived of their own claims during the pandemic. We analyse in-depth interviews conducted during the Covid-19 pandemic with a large, diverse sample of social security benefit claimants, and draw on concepts of deservingness to show how social security claimants negated stigma through appealing to specific deservingness frames. We show how frames relating to the normative criteria of need, control, contribution and identity were deployed by those who began claiming during the pandemic, as well as those whose claim began pre-pandemic. Despite important points of variation, especially in relation to the categories of control and identity, we find that these deservingness frames did not appear to be disrupted in a major way by the pandemic context, suggesting their notable durability in extraordinary circumstances, with implications for the conditions that can (and cannot) precipitate discursive change or rupture.

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声称应得的：Covid-19 大流行期间社会保障申请人话语的持久性

Covid-19 大流行为全球社会保障体系创造了非凡的条件，具有物质和话语影响。在英国，这些前所未有的情况导致了（首次）社会保障申请的涌入，人们对社会团结的期望以及围绕福利的更积极的公众讨论。人们可能会认为这会影响对索赔的态度。本文重点介绍索赔人自己的陈述，以及他们在大流行期间如何构思自己的索赔。我们分析了在 Covid-19 大流行期间对大量不同的社会保障福利申请人样本进行的深入访谈，并利用应得的概念来展示社会保障申请人如何通过诉诸特定的应得框架来消除耻辱感。我们展示了在大流行期间开始索赔的人以及在大流行前开始索赔的人如何部署与需求、控制、贡献和身份等规范标准相关的框架。尽管存在重要的差异点，尤其是在控制和身份类别方面，但我们发现这些值得的框架似乎并没有被大流行病的背景以重大方式破坏，这表明它们在特殊情况下具有显着的持久性，对可以（和不能）加速话语变化或破裂的条件产生了影响。