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Title: Unemployment, Health and Welfare During the Depression

Author(s): Charles Webster

Publication Date: February 1985

Keyword(s): Health, Nutrition, Unemployment and Welfare

Programme Area(s): Human Resources

Abstract: Were cash benefits and welfare services available to the unemployed sufficient to protect them from ill-health? Recent reappraisals have tended to magnify the influence of welfare provision. The present review draws on hitherto unexploited, confidential reports of the Ministry of Health and Board of Education, to point out that expert witnesses were increasingly concerned that unemployment relief and social services were inadequate to meet the needs of the community in 'Special Areas'. It is argued that the value of cash benefits was undermined by operation of the means test, and that welfare services were most inadequate where the need was greatest.

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Webster, C. 1985. 'Unemployment, Health and Welfare During the Depression'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=48