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    The National Assistance Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 29) is an Act of Parliament passed in the United Kingdom by the Labour government of Clement Attlee...
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  • National Assistance was the main means-tested benefit in the United Kingdom from 1948 to 1966. It was established by the National Assistance Act 1948...
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    Public Assistance Institutions under the control of local authorities. It was not until the introduction of the National Assistance Act 1948 (11 & 12...
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    In 1948, the PLAA was repealed by the National Assistance Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 29), which created the National Assistance Board to act as a...
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  • The National Assistance Board was established by the National Assistance Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 29) and abolished in by the Ministry of Social Security...
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  • In Scotland, a duty is imposed on local authorities under the National Assistance Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 29) where the body of a person who has died...
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    adults, plus retirement pensions. The National Assistance scheme established under the National Assistance Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 29) provided for...
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    of inmates peaked in 1906 and after the introduction of the National Assistance Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 29), the Poor Law system was abolished throughout...
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    system. The Poor Law system was not formally abolished until the National Assistance Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 29),[citation needed] with parts of the law...
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    Clement Attlee (category National Council for Civil Liberties people)
    passing of the National Insurance Act 1946 and National Assistance Act 1948, the formation of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948, and the enlargement...
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    Welfare (redirect from Public assistance)
    abolished and replaced with a modern system by laws such as the National Assistance Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 29). In more recent times, comparing the...
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    Beveridge Report (category National Health Service)
    of Parliament (namely the National Insurance Act 1946, the National Assistance Act 1948, and the National Health Service Act 1946) which founded the modern...
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    The Mutual Defense Assistance Act was a United States Act of Congress signed by President Harry S. Truman on 6 October 1949. For U.S. foreign policy, it...
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  • state was introduced, including the National Health Service. The National Assistance Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 29) repealed all poor law legislation. "EH...
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    The Vagrancy Act 1824 (5 Geo. 4. c. 83) is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom that makes it an offence to sleep rough or beg in England and Wales...
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    Pensions Act 1936 and the remainder of the act by the National Assistance Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 29), it remains in force in Ireland. The act was the...
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    were the National Assistance Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 29), National Insurance Act 1946, and National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1946. This...
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    access to benefit. That was relieved after the enactment of the National Assistance Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 29), when payments began to be made to jobseekers...
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    The National Assistance Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 29) formally abolished the poor law, and gave a minimum income to those not paying National Insurance...
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    Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance was the first of many so-called "mutual security agreements", and the formalization of the Act of Chapultepec. The treaty...
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    impaired. The accompanying guidance for clinical staff states: "The National Assistance Act 1948 states that a person can be certified as severely sight impaired...
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  • National Assistance Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 29), allowing anyone of working age on a low income to apply for support. National Assistance was replaced...
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    received dentures and spectacles from the National Health Service should pay towards their cost. The National Assistance Board was authorised to assist anyone...
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  • capital of any dependent children is normally disregarded. The National Assistance Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 29) established that the value of the claimant's...
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    whereby the National Assistance Board was transformed into the Supplementary Benefit Board. By merging this with the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance...
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  • The National Assistance Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 29) formally abolished the poor law, and gave a minimum income to those not paying National Insurance...
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  • or 80, she was taken to hospital under the provisions of the National Assistance Act 1948 as a person in need of care and attention. Locals tell a story...
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    half of all U.S. foreign assistance—the highest in the world in absolute dollar terms. Congress passed the Foreign Assistance Act on September 4, 1961, which...
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  • under the control of local county councils. It was not until the National Assistance Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 29) that the last vestiges of the Poor Law...
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    The Minimum Wages Act 1948 is an act of parliament concerning Indian labour law that sets the minimum wages that must be paid to skilled and unskilled...
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