Social Security : The Story of British Social Progress and the Beveridge Plan
1943 1943 1940s 3 preliminary leaves, 9-62 pages : illustrations, diagrams CHAPTER III SOCIAL SECURITY IN ACTION (i) THE SIX SOCIAL SECURITY CLASSES The moral to be drawn from the foregoing analysis is that we must expand and improve the income-maintenance services, particularly National Health In...
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| author | Great Britain. Inter-departmental Committee on Social Insurance and Allied Services Davison, Ronald C. (Ronald Conway), 1884- |
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1943
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3 preliminary leaves, 9-62 pages : illustrations, diagrams
CHAPTER III SOCIAL SECURITY IN ACTION (i) THE SIX SOCIAL SECURITY CLASSES The moral to be drawn from the foregoing analysis is that we must expand and improve the income-maintenance services, particularly National Health Insurance. We must aim at bringing the whole community into the social security scheme, and must try to provide for each group and for each contingency a scale of benefits or grants adequate to their needs. The Beveridge Plan provides the model and the general lay-out. First of all, here is a definition of the groups into which the people are divided according to their status or condition of life. There are six main classes (see Chart 9) to be catered for in any comprehensive scheme of social security and insurance (the symbols used for each class in the chart are indicated in brackets). (a) Persons of Working Age. Class I : Employed persons (full red symbols). This means everybody working under a contract of service, normally described as wage- or salary-earners. There should be no upper income limit for insurance in future and no fixed age limit. Men and women should, according to Beveridge, become pensioners only upon retirement from earning. In insurance all should contribute compulsorily, irrespective of their varying personal risk. Married men's insurance should cover their wives : husband and wife should be treated as a team. Under Beveridge there would be a flat rate of insurance contributions varied only according to age and sex. A company manager on £5000 a year would pay the same rate (4s. 3d. per week) as an agricultural labourer on £3 per week. Their employers would add 28
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| is_hierarchy_title | Social Security : The Story of British Social Progress and the Beveridge Plan |
| language | English English |
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| publishDate | 1943 |
| publisher | London : G.G. Harrap and Co. |
| spellingShingle | Great Britain. Inter-departmental Committee on Social Insurance and Allied Services Davison, Ronald C. (Ronald Conway), 1884- Maitland Sara Hallinan Pamphlets: No organisation cited Health care Social security--Great Britain Social Security : The Story of British Social Progress and the Beveridge Plan |
| title | Social Security : The Story of British Social Progress and the Beveridge Plan |
| topic | Maitland Sara Hallinan Pamphlets: No organisation cited Health care Social security--Great Britain |
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