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or will be completed this year, and 34 more will be completed by 1981.
(c) With the help of a UK expert, a complete
review of the social welfare arrangements
introduced in 1973 was undertaken under the
three headings of payments (ie, social security),
services to the elderly, and services to youth,
and Green Papers were published on each. These
complemented an earlier review of services
for the handicapped whose findings were
finalised in a White Paper in the Autumn.
These reviews covered all aspects of social
welfare and its administration.
The
Government is assuming that all recommendations
will be adopted and has written into the new
budget and the three-year expenditure forecasts
the additional $300 million over the next four
years which they involve. Though the proposals
for the handicapped were the most complicated,
and probably have the widest long-term
implications, the proposal in tis Green Papers
which has attracted most attention has been a
semi-compulsory contributory scheme to provide
sickness, death and retirement benefits, and
possibly mortgage facilities.
The housing programme has reached a stage at
which building contracts have already been let
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