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The three British National Insurance Funds hold the contributions of the National Insurance Scheme, set up by the Government of the United Kingdom in 1911. It was reformed in 1948 and assumed broadly its current form in 1975, when the separate National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) and National Insurance (Reserve) Funds were merged with it. [ 1 ]
The National Insurance Funds are used to pay for certain types of welfare expenditure and National Insurance payments cannot be used directly to fund general government spending. However, any surplus in the funds is invested in government securities, and so is effectively lent to the government at low rates of interest.
England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, except that sections 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 extend only to England and Wales and Scotland, sections 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 extend only to Northern Ireland, and an amendment, repeal or revocation contained in Schedule 1 or 2 has the same extent as the enactment or instrument to which it relates. [2] Dates
An Act to provide for Insurance against Loss of Health and for the Prevention and Cure of Sickness and for Insurance against Unemployment, and for purposes incidental thereto. Citation: 1 & 2 Geo. 5. c. 55: Territorial extent England and Wales; Scotland; Northern Ireland: Dates; Royal assent: 16 December 1911: Commencement: 1 July 1912
Social Security (Contributions) (Re-rating and Northern Ireland National Insurance Fund Payments) Order (Northern Ireland) 1995 (S.R. 1995 No. 79) Explosives in Harbour Areas Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 (S.R. 1995 No. 87)
It was a historic result, with a nationalist party emerging with the most seats for the first time. Michelle O’Neill, the Sinn Fein leader in Northern Ireland, is in line to take the symbolic ...
The welfare state of the United Kingdom began to evolve in the 1900s and early 1910s, and comprises expenditures by the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland intended to improve health, education, employment and social security. The British system has been classified as a liberal welfare state system. [1]
What is the Northern Ireland Protocol? Jointly agreed by the UK and EU, it is the part of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement that deals with the main obstacle in the divorce talks – the Irish land ...