Post by rod222 on Jan 15, 2024 10:37:30 GMT
David Lloyd George
9d Revenue Essay ?
Commentary
Blair Harris (Canada)
Note : Links no longer work
Similar in style to the National Health Insurance stamps.
(Note: In 1911, David Lloyd-George (British Prime
Minister) brought his National Insurance Bill before
the House of Commons. It was a measure intended
to establish compulsory health and unemployment
insurance schemes.)
cjoint.com/data/lbsLZkWTvj.htm
Your "essay" may be for a satyrical label against
Lloyd-George and his new insurance scheme.
National Insurance - 1911.
The National Insurance Act was in two parts. Part 1
dealt with unemployment. Part 2 dealt with health.
Workers earning under £160 per year had to join
the scheme. They paid 4d. per week from their own
wages into an insurance scheme. Each payment
gave them a stamp in their card. The employer
added a further 2d. and the government added 3d
on top of that. Total 9d per week.
This may be the source of the 9d denomination
on your stamp parody / essay.
In return for their contributions workers got sick
pay (10 shillings a week for 6 months) and
unemployment pay (7 shillings a week for up to
15 weeks). As with the other Liberal measures,
National Insurance helped but it was far from perfect.
There were some problems with the organisation
and standard of medical care under the scheme.
There was always the problem of the families of
workers. They were not insured or treated under
the scheme if they were ill.
It comes as a bit of a surprise to realise that the
man who is arguably the greatest politician in
Welsh history actually had the misfortune to be
born in England, where his father, a
Pembrokeshire native, was the headmaster of a
primary school in Manchester.
However, his father died when David was 18 months
old, and his mother moved to Llanystumdwy in
Caernarfonshire (Wales) where her brother Richard
Lloyd, the local shoemaker and Baptist minister,
supported her and her family.
Blair
9d Revenue Essay ?
Commentary
Blair Harris (Canada)
Note : Links no longer work
Similar in style to the National Health Insurance stamps.
(Note: In 1911, David Lloyd-George (British Prime
Minister) brought his National Insurance Bill before
the House of Commons. It was a measure intended
to establish compulsory health and unemployment
insurance schemes.)
cjoint.com/data/lbsLZkWTvj.htm
Your "essay" may be for a satyrical label against
Lloyd-George and his new insurance scheme.
National Insurance - 1911.
The National Insurance Act was in two parts. Part 1
dealt with unemployment. Part 2 dealt with health.
Workers earning under £160 per year had to join
the scheme. They paid 4d. per week from their own
wages into an insurance scheme. Each payment
gave them a stamp in their card. The employer
added a further 2d. and the government added 3d
on top of that. Total 9d per week.
This may be the source of the 9d denomination
on your stamp parody / essay.
In return for their contributions workers got sick
pay (10 shillings a week for 6 months) and
unemployment pay (7 shillings a week for up to
15 weeks). As with the other Liberal measures,
National Insurance helped but it was far from perfect.
There were some problems with the organisation
and standard of medical care under the scheme.
There was always the problem of the families of
workers. They were not insured or treated under
the scheme if they were ill.
It comes as a bit of a surprise to realise that the
man who is arguably the greatest politician in
Welsh history actually had the misfortune to be
born in England, where his father, a
Pembrokeshire native, was the headmaster of a
primary school in Manchester.
However, his father died when David was 18 months
old, and his mother moved to Llanystumdwy in
Caernarfonshire (Wales) where her brother Richard
Lloyd, the local shoemaker and Baptist minister,
supported her and her family.
Blair
