SOCIAL SECURITY
BENEFITS AND PENSIONS. PROVISION FOR SCHEMES. Social security benefits, together with war and sundry pensions, are estimated to cost £5,834,625 in their first complete year of operation. Of this total, £1,754,625 appears on the Estimates for the first time to provide maternity, medical, hospital, pharmaceutical and emergency benefits and to meet administration expenses. To finance the scheme of maternity benefits, it is estimated that £306,500 is needed. In the round figure of" £IOO,OOO the Estimates ■of the department cover the likely charges "for and incidental to the services of medical practitioners." A total of £738,400 is provided for hospital benefits, this sum including £460,000"f0r treatment in public hospitals, £75,000 for patients in.private hospitals, and £15,000 for treatment in other approved institutions. A significant fact is the inclusion of an item of £10,0.00 for out-patient treatment, which at pre-, sent does not come within the scope of the free hospitals scheme. Pharmaceutical benefits are estir mated to require £50,00.0.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4818, 2 August 1939, Page 5
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160SOCIAL SECURITY King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4818, 2 August 1939, Page 5
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