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Selma James: Let’s Not Forget the Woman Behind Child Benefit

8th August 2016

Universal family allowance, now known as child benefit and no longer universal, was paid for the first time 70 years ago today. It was primarily the work of Eleanor Rathbone.

See my article in the Guardian celebrating the 70th anniversary of Child Benefit.

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