How Did Beveridge Improve Social Security

Beveridge 1942 report was commissioned by the government on how Britain can rebuild itself after the war. The Social Insurance and Allied Services report was published and covered all aspects on national social security to include everyone and provide benefits to everyone; this report influenced some reforms for the welfare state.

The key point was to abolish poverty coming up with a fully comprehensive Social Insurance Scheme that provides income security and also special expenditure around birth, death, and marriages. Beveridge recommended ways in which social security was going to be administered by bringing the system together and create classes of National insurance and proposed working people should pay a weekly contribution to the state and this in result benefits were paid to unemployed, retired, sick and widowed to reduce the pressure on public services.

The report identified 5 evil giant that were believed to be hindering progress of the country and believed that dealing with these giants the welfare of citizens will be greatly improved. The giants were as follows:

Most of them were unemployed, sick, old or widowed and not able to work as not their fault. To solve this problem, Beveridge came up with means tested benefit system that would give the people that were in lack a provision in times of crisis. This was paid for by National Insurance Scheme paid by the employee and also contributed by the employer, and that social insurance schemes like child benefit were universal and not means tested as this to help with the extra costs of raising children preventing it becoming a burden to the