Introduced universal family benefit. This brought almost every family into the social security system and receiving benefits became a common experience from rich to poor, multiplying the number of parents receiving the family benefit by five.[i] Like its predecessor the family allowance, the benefit was again paid directly to the mother.[ii]
The boundary between the state and volunteer sector shifted towards government control with an extensive welfare state.[iii]
Footnotes
- [i] go to main content Margaret McClure, A Civilised Community: A History of Social Security in New Zealand 1898–1998, Auckland, 1998, pp. 7, 103.
- [ii] go to main content Brian Easton, Social Policy and the Welfare State in New Zealand, Australia, 1980, p. 106.
- [iii] go to main content Margaret Tennant, Past Judgement: Social Policy in New Zealand History, co-edited with Bronwyn Dalley, 2004, p. 49.