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Supplementary cash grants: A case study in selective income maintenance services†

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

Abraham Doron
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This article deals with two supplementary cash grants paid to low-income groups in the Israeli population in the year 1962. Both grants were intended to compensate selected population groups for the discontinuation of universal services previously enjoyed by the entire population. The first grant was intended to compensate low-income employees for the non-payment of a universal cost-of-living allowance after devaluation at the beginning of 1962. The second grant was intended to compensate low-income groups for the abolition of the government bread subsidy in the summer of 1962 and the consequent rise in the price of this staple food.

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Journal of Social Policy , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , July 1972 , pp. 213 - 225
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1972

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Footnotes

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Paul Baerwald School of Social Work, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Mr Reuben Steiner of the Research and Statistics Department of the National Insurance Institute assisted me in the collection and processing of the data of this study.

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The research on which this paper is based was supported by the National Insurance Institute.

References

1 See ‘Cost-of-Living Allowance Will Disrupt Stability’, Ha'Aretz, 4 03 1962.Google Scholar

2 Decision No. KL/95 of the Ministerial Committee for Economic Affairs, 1 April 1962.

3 Memo of Dr A. Nitzan to the Director General of the National Insurance Institute, 27 March 1962. (Other estimates suggested that the sum might even reach I£ 6 million.)

4 Divrei Haknesseth, vol. 34, session 159 of the Fifth Knesseth, 18 07 1962, pp. 2956–7.Google Scholar

5 National Insurance Institute, Second Supplementary Cash Grant, Circular 115/62, 26 08 1962.Google Scholar

6 For further details of this argument see: Titmuss, Richard M., ‘Universal and Selective Social Services’, in Commitment to Welfare, London: Allen and Unwin, 1968 CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Kaim-Caudle, P. R., ‘Selectivity and the Social Services’, Lloyds Bank Reviewκ, 04 1969 Google Scholar; Seldon, Arthur, ‘Crisis in the Welfare State’, Encounter, 12 1968.Google Scholar