U.S. SOCIAL SECURITY
SILL EEFQRE congress CONTRIBUTORY SCHEME (10.30 a,m.) WASHINGTON, June 4. Congress has received a draft of the proposed legislation designed to insure mpst" of the nation’s 130,000,000 people against all economic hazards throughout life —the United States counterpart of Britain’s Beveridge plan. The bill aims at providing public employment offices, increased old ago and survivors’ insurance as well as insurance covering permanent and temporary disability, death, unemployment, maternity care, medical and hospital benefits and the protection of servicemen’s social security rights, with unemployment allowances, when they are demobilised. All workers earning £750 or less annually would be assessed at 6 per pent, the employers paying an equal amount;
Senator Wagner explained that the bill would extend the present social security benefits to 15,000,000 people who are now excluded, such as farm labourers, domestics, independent farmers, and" small - businessmen. It would provide a minimum of £7 10s inpiitjily ’ for an insured aged couple find a maximum of £3O monthly.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21113, 5 June 1943, Page 4
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