He proposed rational reforms of the betting industry and of licensing hours, and the introduction of state Old Age Pensions.
The major source of income in child-only households was remittances (77.4%) compared to mixed-generation households in which salaries (54. l%o) and social grants (29.6%) – including state old age pensions – comprised the major sources of income (Table 5).
Sometimes the CSG was used to supplement food purchases for the household, and there was also reliance on other family members' social grants such as state old age pensions.
Such households were also considered mixed-generation if any member had completed schooling up to Grade 12, or received a state old age pension, or disability grant (available only to adults over 18 years).
(Of course, many basic state old-age pensions work in the same way).Other schemes, particularly those on offer from local governments, are funded rather like a company pension scheme.
Until recently, sixty-five had been the age of retirement in this country, a milestone cemented by the Social Security Act of 1935, which picked that age not, as is commonly believed, because Congress was copying the law established by Otto von Bismarck in Germany decades earlier (in fact, his cutoff was seventy) but because that demarcation was used by many of the states' old-age programs.
These high UPE numbers will clearly have implications for the welfare system, including state old-age pensions and health care systems.
Several dramatise the fragile, polar states of old age and of childhood in original ways.
In my state, the old age pension is given to both husband and wife, if they are 60 and above.
In fact by then the age will be even higher, probably – what's the betting it will be north of 75? If, indeed, there are state-provided old age pensions at all by then.
