Social Security

Richard Disney

Chapter 9 in Public Expenditure Policy, 1984–85, 1984, pp 149-171 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The social security programme is now the largest, accounting for 29 per cent of total expenditure planned for 1984/5. Social security comprises payment of benefits to the elderly, the sick and disabled, the unemployed, widows and orphans, and family and housing benefits, but excludes expenditure on the National Health Service, construction of public housing and various tax allowances and housing reliefs. Some of these are themselves large: retirement pensions account for around half the social security budget, equal virtually the whole defence budget and exceed the education budget.

Keywords: Unemployment Benefit; Supplementary Benefit; Disability Benefit; Sickness Benefit; Poverty Trap (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1984
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-17623-6_9

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