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Social Security

In: Public Expenditure Policy, 1984–85

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  • Richard Disney

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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.

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  • Richard Disney, 1984. "Social Security," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Paul Cockle (ed.), Public Expenditure Policy, 1984–85, chapter 9, pages 149-171, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-17623-6_9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-17623-6_9
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