Centenary of the Old Age Pensions Act 1908

In "The American Political Science Review", (Vol. 3, No. 1. (Feb., 1909), pp. 68-73.) the American statistician Horace Secrist wrote about the previous year's Old Age Pensions Act in the UK that "According to the opinion of the Earl of Roseberry, the most significant piece of legislation passed by the English parliament since the reform act of 1832, is the old age pension act of August 1, 1908. It is important from the standpoint of social or reform legislation, since it is the realization of a policy to which both parties were pledged, and of a hope which has been strong in the minds of the English almost ontinuously since 1893."

Read the attached file, courtesy of the JSTOR journal archive, for the whole of Secrist's article, which goes into some detail about the Old Age Pension Act and the entitlements it gave people.