Social Security : The Story of British Social Progress and the Beveridge Plan

1943 1943 1940s 3 preliminary leaves, 9-62 pages : illustrations, diagrams to qualify for her pension at 60 and to be covered for sickness and unemployment benefits in her own right. Eve qualified for pension first. She did not have to wait for Adam to reach 65 a year later, because she had been a w...

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Main Authors: Great Britain. Inter-departmental Committee on Social Insurance and Allied Services (contributor), Davison, Ronald C. (Ronald Conway), 1884-
Institution:MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
Language:English
English
Published: London : G.G. Harrap and Co. 1943
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Summary:1943 1943 1940s 3 preliminary leaves, 9-62 pages : illustrations, diagrams to qualify for her pension at 60 and to be covered for sickness and unemployment benefits in her own right. Eve qualified for pension first. She did not have to wait for Adam to reach 65 a year later, because she had been a worker and contributor. What was the rate of her pension? Although we are now in the year 1985, the State had never been able to put pensions as high as .24s. single and £2 per week for a couple. There were far too many pensioners for that — about 9,000,000 of them to provide for. The rate was 16s. for a single person or 30s. joint ; and old people could always claim a supplement up to another 12s. from the Local Security Office on proof of need. But few did so at that period, and for two reasons : one reason was that the Government had made certain extra provision in kind. There were pleasant cottages and small flats for couples at low rents and a few free luxuries like tobacco. Another reason was even more important and was the main factor in the case of Adam and Eve Black. It was the saving habit of the people, prompted and fostered by every known device. The continuation and extension of the War Savings habit after the war to practically the whole community of wage-earners had become a vital feature of British economic policy. It was called "Saving for Security," and was the Popular Capitalism of the new age. The Blacks had saved a tidy sum for their retirement. For thirty years they had been putting by four or five shillings every week in these special Savings Schemes run by the State. They could now count on 15s. per week of their own money when they needed it. That made their weekly money 45s. joint, and out of this about 5. was taken for rent. And so they ended their days. Adam died at the close of the twentieth century. His death benefit of £20 more than sufficed to pay the cost of his decent burial. 47 15X/2/566/303
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