History A-Level
Means testing and poverty
What Means testing and poverty means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Means testing and poverty
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
A test applied from 1931 to extended unemployment benefit that assessed household income and savings, so families with other earners could lose benefit.
Topics that use Means testing and poverty
- Paper 3, Option 34.2: Poverty, public health and the state in Britain, c1780–1939 - 5 Depression and the dole: poverty in the inter-war years, 1920–39 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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