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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
Well I am from a large family(7 children)...but when my parents were raising us there were no welfare benefits - unless you count free cod liver oil (yeeeuk) and clinic orange juice(yum).
OK they got family allowance for the first child...and we got free school meals(means tested of course)...but other than that there was nothing.
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Margaret, Five shillings was given for each and every child after the first, and from memory was given in the mothers name.