ABSTRACT
The varied systems of social security administration adopted by different countries are a reflection of the manifold influences that bear on the decision to use one system as against another. Social security administration must also be alive to the human problems of the people it tries to help. If centralisation was considered necessary in 1946 to ensure uniformity of service, decentralisation was equally necessary for efficient and humane administration of the social security services. Advisory committees exist both at the central and local level of social security. At the local level, there were until the Ministry of Social Security Act, 1966, 74 separate local national assistance advisory committees with a sub-committee for each local office. Assistance and Insurance local advisory committees were amalgamated under the Social Security Act, 1966. The function of the new social security advisory committees is not any different from that of their predecessors.
