Please please please help some1, its for college, i dont know where to look?
2006-10-11 05:08:18 · 7 answers · asked by Loving and loved 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Yes dental work was originally totally free for everybody as were presciptions.
The only benefits available to most people were the state pension, family allowance, and dole.
No housing allowance or disability benefit.
2006-10-11 05:18:55 · answer #1 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My beloved grandmother Catherine, lost her teeth before the war, she could not afford to buy dentures. The advent of the welfare state, provided her with `new teeth`she was ,I am told ecstatic!
She could not thank them enough, she could eat once more!
She had to be constantly reassured that they were hers` to keep and that no payment was required.
That is how the welfare state has changed since 1945. She was thank full and appreciated what she had been given. To-day, people demand things, they think they are entitled to have what ever they want. They express little if any gratitude.
2006-10-14 11:16:16 · answer #2 · answered by Social Science Lady 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The other Laura has given you a good website but also consider who it was envisaged would be assisted by the welfare state and in what circumstances at its inception. Typically white, working class males, who were breadwinners and head of the family, who would be out of work temporarily and who would require help from the state for a brief period of time only as a safety net until he got back on his feet. Then consider today's society and how diverse it is and who the possible claimants of today are.
2006-10-11 17:05:22 · answer #3 · answered by overnight celebrity 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
David Lloyd George and Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill instituted old age pensions in 1909 and unemployment benefits in 1912
any additions to the welfare state represent a dilution of its ideals
2006-10-11 21:22:40 · answer #4 · answered by Conservative 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is a fact 100%change by the very fact a deserving person would have to stand on his head to get financial help but to-day someone can come from another country having never contributed to the state and get money, house, and almost anything they ask for and cheating the system is commonplace but not so in 1945
2006-10-11 12:20:39 · answer #5 · answered by srracvuee 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I'm doing a degree course in social policy- go to http://www2.rgu.ac.uk/publicpolicy/introduction/index.htm, it's invaluable.
2006-10-11 12:50:48 · answer #6 · answered by Laura 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Start with the cost to taxpayers. then take it from there.
2006-10-11 12:13:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋