Social Security

The social security system provides benefits for British people.
1- The department runs the social security system in Britain is the depart of work and pesions agencies throughout the country.
2-  The significance of this department for the government. it is the government’s single most expensive programme ( 28 per cent of public spending or £138 billion in 2004-5 ) and is financed from general taxation and contributions by employers and workers over 16 to the national insurance fund.
3- The government pay for the social security system, tax free child benefit (£15 per week for the eldest child and £10 for other children) is paid to all mothers for each of her children up to the age 18, irrespective family income.
4- The official retirment age for men 65 and women 60.
5- pregnant women
  - Unemployed people
  - people over 65
  - young unemployed people ( age 16-18 )
All these groups of people can benefit from the social security system.
6- People are estimated the a quarter of population ( including 4.5 million chlidren ) be on the poverty line.
7- Social security is very expensive and will become more so as the population ages and as the number of the sick, poor, disadvantaged and unemployed persist.
8- In future it is argued that a predicted state and private pension crisis in Britain can be solved only by increased taxation to pay for state pension at a time when the labour force is decrease or by workres working longer and saving more for their retirments.