Description - Old Age Pensions and the Aged Poor; A Proposal by Mr Charles Booth
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...reference, only to pronounce them financially impossible. I do not think that either the Royal Commission or the Committee condemned the plan of general endowment in principle. On the contrary, they sweetened their rejection of this scheme with kind and even complimentary phrases as to its logical perfection. But at the same time they no doubt regarded any such proposal as quite out of the range of practical politics. It is, however, not too much to say that while the demand for pensions remains in full strength, it is the non-contributory schemes that now hold the field. The stones which the builders rejected bid fair to become the corner stones of the new building if there is to be any building at all. It is thus incumbent upon those who advocate my principles to show how they might be put in practice, and what now follows is intended as an effort in this direction. The most desirable age for a State pension is put by various authorities at 60, 65, 70, and 75. If we consider solely the usual working powers of men, 60 is now late enough in most manual industries, but some employments press less hardly, and in most cases the industrial breakdown precedes the financial breakdown by several years, so that we find 65 to be the age at which pauperism increases by leaps and bounds, and thus this age has been commonly chosen as representing the time "when strength is gone and money spent and--pensions--are most excellent." But nevertheless, for reasons which I shall by-and-by give, the age of 70 is the basis of my scheme. It would be provided that every one should, on attaining 70 years of age, be entitled to a pension of 7s a week for the remainder of life. Aliens would be excluded, and there are no doubt other exceptions to be made, but with...
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