Memorandum on the Beveridge Report
1943-02 1943 1940s 28 pages BEVERIDGE GOVERNMENT FUNERAL GRANTS 9 Funeral grant of £20 adults, age 10 to 20, £15; aged 3 to 9, £10; under 3 years, £6. 9 Death grants agreed. No amount yet fixed APPROVED SOCIETIES 10 Abolition of separate approved societies...
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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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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10796/76145B1D-5318-4C51-B5C9-4A1711057502 http://hdl.handle.net/10796/51CE9899-3376-4B01-A2BF-01BE5D91B2A3 |
| Summary: | 1943-02
1943
1940s
28 pages
BEVERIDGE GOVERNMENT FUNERAL GRANTS 9 Funeral grant of £20 adults, age 10 to 20, £15; aged 3 to 9, £10; under 3 years, £6. 9 Death grants agreed. No amount yet fixed APPROVED SOCIETIES 10 Abolition of separate approved societies (mostly controlled by the big insurance companies) administering health insurance benefits. 10 Accepted "with regret" but loophole left for approved societies to re-open the question. INDUSTRIAL ASSURANCE 11 Industrial Assurance to be brought under a non-profit making Public Corporation. 11 Rejected on the ground that "Government have enough on hand without that. ADMINISTRATION 12 A decision to entrust administration of the scheme to a Ministry of Social Security. 12 No decision. May be Ministry of Social Security, may be body on lines of Assistance Board. 13 A decision to appoint some body or persons to prepare the necessary legislation. 13 Existing Government departments to do this aided by a small nucleus staff under Sit William Jowitt. 26
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