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Reform of Social Welfare

Great Britain · Government / Conservative Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records
1928–1980Date range
2Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1928

Stanley Baldwin Bewdley, 1st5 January 1928

London · Government / Conservative Party Government

The over-65s receive first state pensions

1980

Margaret Hilda Thatcher1980

London · Government / Conservative Party Government

Prescription charges rise to pounds 1 and striker benefit assumptions are tightened.

Names involved

Margaret Hilda ThatcherStanley Baldwin Bewdley, 1st

Provenance

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