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 XIII. Miscellaneous questions

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MAJORITY REPORT. 207 14,040) that the collection of contributions in the case of foreign- going seamen should be made not by the stamping of cards but on a schedule system. Under such an arrangement the paying-off officer on cach vessel would be responsible for handing to the Superintendent of the Mercantile Marine a schedule giving full particulars of each seaman and the period of the voyage, and the contributions in respect of the seamen included in the schedule would be paid in cash to the Central Department, who would, in turn, be responsible for transferring credit to the appropriate Societies through a clearing-house established for the purpose. We examined Sir Walter Kinnear as to the practicability of this proposal, and quote from his reply :— ““T have read carefully the evidence given by Sir Norman Hill to the Commission and I am inclined to think that the estimate of loss of contribution income for foreign-going seamen given by him is excessive, but there is no doubt that a substantial loss in fact occurs through failure of the con- tribution cards to reach the Societies. We think the system might be altered on the lines of the schedule system suggested by Sir Norman Hill ; indeed it has become a matter of more moment since the introduction of the Contributory Pensions Scheme of this year. . . . It is suggested that in place of the collection of contributions by cards the contributions of foreign-going seamen should be paid in a lump sum with a schedule on the ter- mination of each voyage. The dissection of the schedule and the credit to Societies would be made by some Central Clearing House of which Societies having a substantial seamen membership would defray the cost. I should like to bring under the notice of the Commission, the fact that this would be a fairly difficult machine to administer because these foreign-going seamen at present are distri- buted over about 1,600 to 1,700 different Societies and branches. Of course, the great bulk of them are in a very limited number of Societies, but that is one of the problems which we shall have to face in introducing this new system.’ (Q. 23,767-23,769.) 546. We are convinced that such a system would undoubtedly eliminate to a large extent the present leakage of contributions and in addition would be much more convenient to the ship- owners. No new statutory powers would be necessary in order to put the system into operation. We are assured that such a scheme would prove workable, and that effective safeguards could be taken to ensure that contributions were credited to the proper Societies. : 547. We recommend accordingly that in going mercantile marine members the card contributions should be abandoned, and the case of foreign- system of collecting a schedule system

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