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“Insure Your children” - 1913

“Insure Your children” - 1913

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Carte De Visite
Very rare dated CDV 
Image shows a living baby and likely depicts the encouragement of National Insurance in the U.K. which was introduced in  1911.

Further information below:

The 1911 National Insurance Act gave the British working classes the first contributory system of insurance against illness and unemployment.[38]

All workers who earned under £160 a year had to pay 4 pence a week to the scheme; the employer paid 3 pence, and general taxation paid 2 pence. As a result, workers could take sick leave and be paid 10 shillings a week for the first 13 weeks and 5 shillings a week for the next 13 weeks. Workers also gained access to free treatment for tuberculosis, and the sick were eligible for treatment by a panel doctor. The National Insurance Act also provided maternity benefits. Time-limited unemployment benefit was based on actuarial principles and it was planned that it would be funded by a fixed amount each from workers, employers, and taxpayers. It was restricted to particular industries, cyclical/seasonal industries like construction of ships, and neither made any provision for dependants. By 1913, 2.3 million were insured under the scheme for unemployment benefit and almost 15 million insured for sickness benefit.
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