Report of the Royal Commission on National Health Insurance

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Identifikator:: 1740277147

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-132094

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report of the Royal Commission on National Health Insurance

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stationery Office

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: XII, 394 S.

Digitisation:: 2020

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter XI. Proposal for dependants' allowances

Collection:: Economics Books

MAJORITY REPORT. 325. With regard to unmarried insured women with dependent children, we do not consider that the allowances should be paid in respect of the children, as an awkward problem of actual dependency would inevitably arise in regard to maintenance orders awarded by a Court and would raise serious administrative difficulties. But we do not think it just that unmarried women, who constitute the great majority of insured women, should have to contribute for a benefit which very few of them are ever likely to receive. We have therefore considered carefully in what cir- cumstances an unmarried woman could fairly claim that her sickness or disablement benefit should be supplemented by an allowance for a person dependent on her. We have come to the conclusion that the allowance might be made in such a case in respect of a dependent widowed mother. It should, however, be laid down that where a widowed mother is alleged to be dependent upon an unmarried insured daughter, but also has unmarried sons to whom she can reasonably look for support, she should be regarded as dependent upon the sons and not upon the daughter. 326. We are informed that under the Widows’, Orphans’ and Old Age Contributory Pensions Act elaborate machinery has had to be set up for the purpose of securing periodical notifications from schoolmasters of the continued attendance at school of dependent children over the age of 14. Certification to Approved Societies on similar lines would, we suggest, be impracticable, and in view of the difficulties involved in certifying the dependency of children over the age of 14, we suggest that ““ dependent child >’ for the purpose we have in view should be defined as a child not exceeding the age of 14.

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