It also called for the introduction of children's allowances.

Numbers declined after the introduction of "children's allowance" payments in the 1940s.

Rich families as well as poor should have their children's allowance, old age pension and free medical treatment.

And children's allowances are never the same again.

There was also a scale for children's allowances.

The fact is that the people who have lost out from the erosion of children's allowances have also lost in other ways.

An isolated children's allowance was introduced to compensate the educational disadvantages faced by children living in remote parts of the country.

Children's allowances are a very real sliver of the money supply, and the Tooth Fairy is still believed to deal in cash.

Many liberals, viewing it as a broader children's allowance, want to extend it to poorer workers, who they say need it most.

Child benefit (children's allowance) is a social security payment which is distributed to the parents or guardians of children, teenagers and in some cases, young adults.

In the 1940s, Beveridge credited the Eugenics Society with promoting the children's allowance, which was incorporated into his 1942 report.

From publishers to candy makers, companies are seeing yuck appeal as a way to slurp up children's allowances, baby-sitting money and tooth fairy change.

More generous provision for the unemployed was provided, with increases in both children's allowances and in unemployment benefits for both men and women.

Specific measures included reductions in real terms of children's allowances and pensions, and the phased abolition of subsidies on agricultural exports by 1995.

Secondly, there has been a dramatic erosion in the value of the children's allowance which they receive as part of their national insurance benefit - the child dependency addition.

Citizenship will carry eligibility for certain civil rights including the right to vote for the Knesset and benefits such as receipt of better social benefits for veterans including higher children's allowances.

Unemployment benefit payments were increased from 15 to 18 shillings a week for men, and from 12 to 15 shillings for women, while the children's allowance was doubled to two shillings.

While largely ignored by the government of the time, Marsh's suggestions (which included but were not limited to unemployment insurance, children's allowances, maternity leave, and government funded health care) would become key parts of the Canadian welfare state.

Fine Gael/Labour took ownership of the austerity agenda in December's budget, implementing more massive cuts to public expenditure and social protection, and stoking widespread pre-budget anxiety as to whether dole payments or children's allowance would be cut.

David Harris, president of the Children's Research and Education Institute, an advocacy group, said, "We have a policy that's essentially a children's allowance, but because it's administered through the tax code it leaves out those who need it most."