ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the debates that emerged in the 1960s and continued into the 1970s about the possibility of reintroducing loans to relieve the needs of the families of those people involved in industrial disputes, something that was done with most success in the Social Security Act 1971 when SB payments that previously had been given as grants in the first two weeks after the return to work of former strikers were made loans. The chapter focuses upon a suggestion, during by the then Prime Minister the 1967 Dock Strike that the SB paid to the families of unofficial strikers should be paid as a loan and the consideration that officials gave to this suggestion. It also examines the Social Security Act 1971 that introduced loans for strikers to cover any SB paid to former strikers in the first two weeks of their return to work while they were awaiting their first wage to be paid.
