Description - Old Age Pensions and the Aged Poor, a Proposal. Re-Issue by Mr Charles Booth
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...I do not deny. With the idea of showing both what they are and how they may be met and overcome, I now venture into details. (2) The Scheme and its Oost. The plan usually associated with the foregoing argument is the granting of a pension of 5s a week to all who, being English born and having lived their working lives in the United Kingdom, reach the age of 65; it also contains some not exactly defined provision for otherwise treating chronic paupers and criminals. This proposal was not my invention, but I have argued in its favour, and it has served its purpose as a basis of discussion. It has always been certain that even if the principle were completely accepted, and if it were agreed that action should be taken, the final shape of the measure would still remain to be determined and would involve some give and take between opposing interests or views. If action on this principle had been urged by either Commission, and if the Government of the day had adopted the same view, it would have been for those in office to lay down the lines of a practical scheme in accordance with the amount of money they were prepared to ask Parliament to provide. This, however, is what has not happened. The Royal Commission presided over by Lord Aberdare could agree only that there was a case for consideration, and suggested the appointment of a differently constituted body to carry the matter further. The Committee presided over by Lord Rothschild confirmed the view that the present state of the aged poor was deplorable, but under the limitations of their reference could find no cure; and they glanced at proposals such as mine, which they accounted as outside their reference, only to pronounce them financially impossible. I do not think that either the Royal Commission or th...
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