Report on the Beveridge proposals
1943-01-19 1943 1940s 20 pages 18. malingering become all the more important if the present qualification of thirty contributions in the last two years, in which we see much value, is to be abolished. If training facilities are not available, and work even away from home cannot be offered, the unemp...
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18. malingering become all the more important if the present qualification of thirty contributions in the last two years, in which we see much value, is to be abolished. If training facilities are not available, and work even away from home cannot be offered, the unemployed person would have an uncontestable right to national assistance. If work at fair wages for the job, but away from home, is offered but the unemployed person declines to take it, the only way to avoid paying money to people out of work when there is work available would be to deny that person even assistance. At the same time, to do so would be to infringe the traditional rights of the able-bodied to that degree of assistance which has been available since the beginnings of the Poor Law. It may well be that malingering could only be reduced to a negligible quantity if the penalty for failure to accept work away from home, at fair wages for the job, were a marked cut in the financial assistance granted, but suitable Appeal Tribunals against the cut would be an indispensable part of such an arrangement. * Sickness Benefit. No benefit should be payable for the first week of sickness. * - Miss Horsbrugh specifically dissented from this recommendation. 8. BENEFITS. To what extent can the rates of benefit suggested be accepted as an adequate social minimum having regard to (a) the number of persons now receiving weekly payments in excess of the proposed minimum through the Assistance Board machinery and (b) wide variations in rent? Should there be a flat rate of subsistence benefit in respect of all causes of interruption of earnings? The rates of benefit suggested by Sir William Beveridge assumes the level of prices 25% above pre-war, which depends upon the indefinite continuance of price stability in the post-war years.
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