Social Security
Sir. —Like “Consistent,” I would be happier to see greater appreciation of the social security and other benefits available today. But the sickening story of Parliamentary and local body elections proves that the average voter is quite witless on election days. He has not even sufficient sense to know on which side his bread is buttered and give a decisive majority to the present Government whose party initiated the benefits all now enj6y.— Yours, etc., PHYLLIS NEWELL. January 14. 1960.
Sir,—l think Social Security is just another way of distributing the national income, in fact a Labour member Said so recently when the family benefit was be ing increased to 15s a week How can it be social security when it is paid to healthy working people, and when it is paid to the wealthy, not that I have any grudge or class distinction, If it was social security it would be paid for old age, sickness, unemployment, etc. It is like a game of put and take, but some take much more than they put in.—Yours, etc., E.N. January 14, 1960.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29108, 21 January 1960, Page 3
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