INSURANCE ACT.
ENQUIRY INTO ITS WORKING.
SOME GRAVE DEFECTS ALLBGJiIX
(By C»b]«.—Pre_» Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, March 15. The Researoh Committee of the Fabian Society, after a careful investigation into the working of the Insurance Act, reports that there is reason to fear that practically all the societies having a large proportion of women have exceeded the estimates of sick benefits by from 25 per cent, to 100 per cent. The committee belioves that the first year's claims will exceed the actuaries' estimates by nearly £1.000,000. Th« sanatorium benefits are also backward The gravest feature is that a million families whose income is below the £1 a week level, aro practically always ill, and the Act extracts a loaf of bread weekly from their bare cupboards, starving them further into illness.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14918, 17 March 1914, Page 7
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