Dear Editor - Another chapter has started for the 60-year-old system of public welfare.
The new chapter is the sad story of the post war legislator and politicians of any colour, who have constantly increased the cost to the taxpayer, but also made it less fair and available to the people who have the most need.
As a person who was born between two world wars, I remembered the struggles throughout the depression of the early twenties, when people had to beg parish councils and relatives for help, and soup kitchens and hunger marches were common.
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The bureaucrats and politicians that have come and gone have not been able to ensure that millions of elderly, disabled and physically and mentally ill people are receiving proper levels of benefit.
I can see Messrs Bevan and Beveridge twisting in their graves over the inequalities and the inefficiencies of the current system.
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