" The Government thus had, in Mr. Maxton's words, a
`happy day' and were not called upon for any fuller explanation even of the proposed changes in the Means Test. These changes will probably be confined to a larger allowance being made in respect of disability pensions, workmen's compensation, and savings whether in cash or in property. The result will be a rather sharper distinction between recipients of transitional payments and recipients of Poor Law relief. It is unfortunate that, if any change at all were going to be made short of a comprehensive reform of unemployment insurance and of the Poor Law, it should have been so long delayed. As things are, it will be easy for the uncharitable to assert that it represents a last effort to avert disaster at the Municipal elections on November 1st."
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