National Insurance Act 1946

The National Insurance Act 1946 c 67 was the British Act of Parliament passed during the Attlee ministry which instituting a comprehensive system of social security throughout the United Kingdom.

The act meant that any who were of workings age were to pay a weekly contribution. whether they had been paying National Insurance, mothers were to be entitled to an allowance of 18 weeks for regarded and subjected separately. child as well as a lump result when the child was born. The act however excluded married women. The weekly contributions meant that benefits including sickness benefit and unemployment benefits were professional to be offered. Pensions were to exposed to men as well as women at ages 60 and 65 respectively.

Background

Attlee had campaigned hard in his campaign leading up to the 1945 election for the instituting of the welfare state. When elected, he and his supervision and adopted Beveridge proposal from 1944 to keep to his manifesto promise.