After the relief of poverty in modern Britain A Brief History of the development of the system

As early as 1536, Britain enacted the "Henry Poor Law," which marks the start of the British Government to address the social problem of poverty must bear the responsibility. Britain in 1601 promulgated the history of the famous "Elizabeth Poor Law," the official establishment of a government relief for the poor. This is the first to the European system of poor countries, but also opened up a modern social assistance system of precedent. The law for the first time the government has officially confirmed that those unable to work to help the poor, help the poor children to do the apprenticeship, to the able-bodied person to provide, as well as the minimum standard of living of the poor security in areas such as the responsibilities and obligations. The Act provides funds to poor households to pay a fixed amount of tax-based, more affluent areas would be provided with tax subsidies for poverty-stricken areas. The Act will also be divided into three types of clients, be treated differently. Through the establishment of the Diocese of poor supervision and poor parish officials and the Commission, the establishment of institutions of the poor, to study the poor, orphans and poor organization to study the measures to carry out relief lobby. In 1834, the British Government enacted a new law on the whole to continue the relief of poverty, "the old Poor Law" in the framework of the content, but the poor will be re-distributed by the concentration of power, the poor will be the way of relief from home (outside relief) to hospital relief .

In the late nineteenth century, the United Kingdom's socio-economic development of the traditional to the Poor Law as the core of the poverty relief system has been difficult to effectively address the increasingly complex social problems. As a result, to social security as the core of the new social security system in the United Kingdom to begin the creation of (its logo for the 1908 UK pension law and in 1911 the National Insurance Law promulgated), the traditional system for the poor this step by step "back seat" Become a new social security system, a useful complement.

In 1948, the British Government has promulgated and implemented the National Relief Act, and an official to replace its nearly 350-year extension of the Poor Law system. This marks the modern social security system within the framework of the social relief system in the United Kingdom to establish an official. National relief under the law to determine the National Insurance Department of the National Bureau of relief for all types of social relief affairs agencies will be unable to participate in social insurance, do not have the qualifications to receive social security benefits, as well as to continue to have lost their eligibility to receive social security benefits Defined as those who target relief and to establish a national standard to the specific relief. The Act also provides that the National Relief Council approved the expenditure of funds by the shoulder; access to the national relief on the condition that the individual is not able to solve their basic needs; national relief in the implementation process require applicants to the household income survey . Since then, with the UK's economic and social development, national relief system has been revised several times, mainly to gradually raise the standard of relief.