Memorandum on the Beveridge Report
1943-02 1943 1940s 28 pages The Workmen's Compensation Board would employ a Chief Medical O&cer and would appoint medical examiners. It is suggested that medical issues would be decided on the same basis as non-medical issues except that the committees would have the services of th...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
| Language: | English English |
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London : Communist Party of Great Britain
February 1943
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| Summary: | 1943-02
1943
1940s
28 pages
The Workmen's Compensation Board would employ a Chief Medical O&cer and would appoint medical examiners. It is suggested that medical issues would be decided on the same basis as non-medical issues except that the committees would have the services of the Compensation Board's Medical Staff as advisers. The T.U.C. proposals were supported by the Miners' Federation of Great Britain. We believe that these proposals of the Trades Union Congress are worthy of consideration when the machinery for assessing workmen's compensation claims is being set up under the proposed Ministry of Social Security. FINANCE We do not consider that the existing methods of financing the Social Security Plan are equitable as between employers, workers and the state. Although the finance of the plan provides for entire new services such as children's allowances costing £113,000,000 per year, and increased expenditure on medical services, the Government is only contributing £86,000,000 more in the first year The State will be actually contributing less to the new social insurance scheme than it is doing to the present schemes. The State (including the local authorities) is paying 61 per cent. of the cost of existing social insurance schemes and allied services, this will fall in 1945 under the Beveridge plan to 50 per cent. and will increase in 1965 to 61 per cent. Thus in the early years of the Social Security Plan the bulk of the increased benefit is met out of increased contributions and the burden on the State is kept down. The greater part of the new and higher benefits will be paid out of the increased contributions and by the influx of millions of new contributors to the fund. 21
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