ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the services giving cash benefits, which together form the system of social security: National Insurance, National Assistance, Family Allowances and War Pensions. In addition, there were two systems which provided more specialized benefits without either contribution conditions or test of means, namely Family Allowances and War Pensions. In fact, in the case of industrial injuries there are no minimum contribution conditions to be satisfied before a claimant is eligible, as there are in the case of the main National Insurance scheme. Beveridge's advice was departed from, however, in that the National Assistance Board remained separate from the Ministry of National Insurance, though responsible to its Minister. Under the 1948 National Assistance Act the local authorities also have a duty to provide welfare services for the physically handicapped, including the blind, partially sighted, deaf, hard of hearing and the crippled.
