WELFARE
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- WELFARE
- 1918-1939
- unemployment
- unemployment insurance act 1920
- aimed to increase number of insured workers
- claims drained accumulation funds
- march 1930: 3 million claims rejected
- unemployment act of 1924
- 26 weeks of benefits gradually withdrawn
- force people into work
- led to strikes
- Jarrow Crusdae - Newcaste - London in 1934
- 26 weeks of benefits gradually withdrawn
- unemployment insurance act 1920
- housing
- housing and town planning act 1919
- aimed to empower local authorities to use central gov funds for housing
- 213,000 out of 600,000 completed
- Geddes Act 1922 axed it
- housing act 1930
- promoted house building
- 4 million homes built
- 1940, 1/3 of houses built since 1918
- housing and town planning act 1919
- pensions
- widow, orphan's and old age contributary pension act 1925
- 10 shillings a week for pension (65-70)
- initially unpopular (poor penalised)
- funded by compulsory contribution not taxation
- accepted due to growing age
- self employed workers could join in 1937
- 10 shillings a week for pension (65-70)
- widow, orphan's and old age contributary pension act 1925
- unemployment
- Word War 2
- beveridge report 1942: set up to tackle the 5 giants
- everybody equal in war
- rationing
- blitz
- great leveller
- 1.5m children evacuated 1939 - pied piper
- middle class shocked at malnourished and dirty chidren
- conscription and nationalisation = full employment
- 1945-1964
- welfare state gov. help from the 'cradle to the grave'
- national insurance act 1946
- contributory system for pensions and benefits
- 25p tax a week
- pensions men 65+ and women 60+
- £1.30 per week single and £2.10 for a couple
- national assistance act 1948
- NAB established to provide financial help for vulnerable
- preferred to UAB as no means testing
- 250,000 more claimed higher benefits after 1948
- NAB established to provide financial help for vulnerable
- 1964-1979
- conservatives opposed welfare
- 1964: £800 million deficit 1/3 on welfare
- caused inflation
- 1964: £800 million deficit 1/3 on welfare
- 1960: 720,000 children in poverty - welfare didnt work
- 1970: national insurance act
- further 100,000 given pensions
- 1974: 25% increase in pensions
- further 100,000 given pensions
- 1975: universal child benefit act
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- conservatives opposed welfare
- 1918-1939
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