Social Welfare Disadvantages

In 1921, a council to discuss the issues of social benefits was created and in the 1927 there was the introduction of the Widows and Orphans Pensions Act. In 1929 the first social security contribution for injury at work was introduced and in 1948 the Old Age Pensions act was introduced to prevent old people from getting absolutely poor. In the 1950s there was the introduction of Social Assistance concept (relief). The national Assistance act in 1956 introduced free health care and the National insurance act for everyone who works to pay the NI. In 1959 the Ross Report on residential childcare and probations. In the early 1960s there was the founding of ‘Dar tal providenza’ which is a residential service for people with disability. Those who

These are the physical and material needs and also the social benefits and services. When we talk about benefit freeze it can be that there will not be an increase or that the benefit will not be given at all. Originally, welfare was intended to support particular categories to be considered as a disadvantage. Gradually it became a comprehensive set of social arrangements but later it was given to everybody such as the children’s allowance. After, it was moved to those people who needed it the most, but to all the children not only the 1st 3 children. Nowadays, everybody has it but not in the same amount, it depends on the income of the parents. This is one of the aspects which demonstrates that we are a mixed economy; we are not rightist but a mix of both

Socially, there are needs which aren’t basic needs, but have become needs over time such as social status, education, electricity, internet, mobile phones, etc. A need might be real but a need might also be conjured in one’s mind. Social policy is concerned about society, to have a decent standard of living. Needs may be: Felt, such as one needs drugs but it doesn’t necessarily mean that the person needs the drugs as basic needs; Defined; Comparative, when someone has something and we need to have it just to be the same as them; Perception, one may not really need something but they see it as a need; Judgments, one may need something just to avoid judgments by people in society such as a child needs a school bag of a certain brand so that his classmates don’t pick up on him; and Solution, sometimes needs are determined by