Creating a welfare state
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- Creating A Welfare State 1918-1939
- Unemployment provision
- 1929 Local Government Act &1934 Unemployment Act
- Local gov. and councils set up Public Assistance Committees (PACs)
- Gave power to means-test claimants: their combined household income was thoroughly investigated to judge eligibility of dole payments
- Hated- Means-test was unfair. Some PACs were less stringent with their tests than others.
- Invasion of privacy
- End of 1931, 400,000 people had suffered rejected or reduced claims because of the test
- Local gov. and councils set up Public Assistance Committees (PACs)
- 1929 Local Government Act &1934 Unemployment Act
- Pensions
- 1908 Pensions Act
- State pensions introduced.
- Hugely popular with over-70s
- State pensions introduced.
- 1925 Widows, Orphans and Old Age Contributory Pensions Act
- Provided pension of 10 shillings/week for those aged 65-70 and provided for widows and children
- Funded by compulsory contributions (individuals, employers, and the state paid into the scheme) rather than taxation
- Self employed workers of both sexes were allowed to join the scheme in 1937
- Provided pension of 10 shillings/week for those aged 65-70 and provided for widows and children
- 1908 Pensions Act
- Housing
- 1919 Housing and Town Planning Act
- AIM: Empower local authorities to use central Gov. funds to meet housing needs
- Only 213,000 were constructed (600,000 needed to meet demand ) before the Geddes Axe
- RESULT: Housing shortage grew worse
- Shortfall of 822,000 houses in1923
- RESULT: Housing shortage grew worse
- Conservative and Labour Housing Acts 1923 and 1924
- AIM: To use subsidies to encourage the construction of private and state-owned housing.
- Together with a further Labour Housing Act in 1930 promoted a great deal of housebuilding
- 1919- 1940- 4 million homes were built in total
- By 1940- 1/3 of all houses had been built since 1918
- AIM: To use subsidies to encourage the construction of private and state-owned housing.
- 1919 Housing and Town Planning Act
- Unemployment provision
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