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'''Common Alms'''
'''Common Alms'''
* Old-age pension
* Old-age pension
* Widow's pension
* Widows' pension
* Orphan's pension
* Orphans' pension
* Invalidity pension
* Invalidity pension
* Housing alms
* Alms housing
* Sick alms
* Sick alms
* Unemployment alms
* Unemployment alms
* Legal alms
* Fuel alms


'''Medical Alms'''
'''Special Alms'''
* Consultation services
* Consultation services
* Treatment services
* Treatment services
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* Medicament services
* Medicament services
* Appliance services
* Appliance services
* Legal alms
==Funding==
The Public Alms scheme is funded by subscriptions and tax revenue. Every person (the servant) who is employed by another (the master) is required to register as a Subscriber. Subscriptions are paid in the form of stamps, purchased at a Post Office. These are pasted every week to a card which is posted to the Lord High Almoner's Office every six months. The responsibility is placed on the master to purchase stamps, who is entitled to recover a proportion thereof from the servant's pay.


'''Especial Alms'''
The week rate of Public Alms subscriptions is based upon the salary or wage of the Subscriber, as well as living circumstances. The subscription for a man with a housewife with or without one or two children under the age of 21 is one and a half times that of a child-less bachelor. Subscribers with more than two children incur increased subscriptions.


==Eligibility==
==Eligibility==
===Common Alms===
===Common Alms===
Subjects become eligible for Common Alms based upon their years of contributions to the Public Alms scheme. The fortnightly rate of Public Alms contributions is based upon the salary or wage of the contributor, as well as living circumstances. A family, including husband, wife and children, are covered under a single Public Insurance contribution rate, which is one and a half times that of an ordinary worker. Families with more than two children incur increased contributions.
Subjects become eligible for Common Alms based upon their years of contributions to the Public Alms scheme.  
 
A person will be eligible for Full Alms if he has contributed to the Public Alms scheme for over thirty-five years at the correct rate. A person is eligible for Three-Quarter Alms if he has contributed for over twenty-five years. A person is eligible for Half Alms if he has contributed for over fifteen years. A person is eligible for Quarter Alms if he has contributed for over five years. The value of most pensions are calculated based upon the number of years of contributions paid into the scheme. Similarly, the provision of almshouses, sick alms, unemployment alms and legal alms are all based upon contributions.
 
For those persons who by reason of invalidity have not contributed sufficiently to the Public Alms scheme, a deemed number of years for contribution is calculated based upon the degree of invalidity, age, living circumstances and means.  


===Medical Alms===
A person will be eligible for Full Common Alms if he has contributed to the Public Alms scheme for over thirty-five years at the correct rate. A person is eligible for Three-Quarter Common Alms if he has contributed for over twenty-five years. A person is eligible for Half Common Alms if he has contributed for over fifteen years. A person is eligible for Quarter Common Alms if he has contributed for over five years. For those persons who by reason of invalidity have not contributed sufficiently to the Public Alms scheme, a deemed number of years for contribution is calculated based upon the degree of invalidity, age, living circumstances and means.  
Eligibility for Medical Alms is also based upon Public Alms contributions. However, all subjects are entitled to Basic Medical Alms, which covers (despite its name), a quarter of the charged fee, up to the maximum amount prescribed in the Medical Schedule to the ''Lord High Almoner's Rules''. Subjects who receive Quarter, Half, Three-Quarter or Full Common Alms or would be eligible for the corresponding grade of Medical Alms, which covers a third, half, two thirds and all of the charged fee, up to the maximum amount prescribed.


===Special Alms===
All subjects are entitled to receive legal alms. All subjects similarly are entitled to receive medical alms. The level of coverage for both depends on whether the patient is covered under a Public Alms subscription. The base coverage of 50 per cent; however, coverage can go up to 100 per cent for those eligible for Full Common Alms.
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Revision as of 07:08, 5 November 2019

The Public Alms scheme is the state benefit programme in Great Nortend. It provides a number of welfare services for Erbonian subjects including housing, pensions, poor relief, legal alms and medical alms. The scheme is administered by the Lord High Almoner and the Board of Almoners. The modern Public Alms scheme is authorised under the Lord High Almoner's Act 18 Edm. IX p. 44 passed in 1920 which created the Board of Almoners. The scheme does not include other state services, such as public schooling, police services or fire services, which are provided under different arrangements.

Types of Alms

The Lord High Almoner currently provides alms in sixteen different categories. These are: Common Alms

  • Old-age pension
  • Widows' pension
  • Orphans' pension
  • Invalidity pension
  • Alms housing
  • Sick alms
  • Unemployment alms
  • Fuel alms

Special Alms

  • Consultation services
  • Treatment services
  • Surgery services
  • Hospital services
  • Nursing services
  • Medicament services
  • Appliance services
  • Legal alms


Funding

The Public Alms scheme is funded by subscriptions and tax revenue. Every person (the servant) who is employed by another (the master) is required to register as a Subscriber. Subscriptions are paid in the form of stamps, purchased at a Post Office. These are pasted every week to a card which is posted to the Lord High Almoner's Office every six months. The responsibility is placed on the master to purchase stamps, who is entitled to recover a proportion thereof from the servant's pay.

The week rate of Public Alms subscriptions is based upon the salary or wage of the Subscriber, as well as living circumstances. The subscription for a man with a housewife with or without one or two children under the age of 21 is one and a half times that of a child-less bachelor. Subscribers with more than two children incur increased subscriptions.

Eligibility

Common Alms

Subjects become eligible for Common Alms based upon their years of contributions to the Public Alms scheme.

A person will be eligible for Full Common Alms if he has contributed to the Public Alms scheme for over thirty-five years at the correct rate. A person is eligible for Three-Quarter Common Alms if he has contributed for over twenty-five years. A person is eligible for Half Common Alms if he has contributed for over fifteen years. A person is eligible for Quarter Common Alms if he has contributed for over five years. For those persons who by reason of invalidity have not contributed sufficiently to the Public Alms scheme, a deemed number of years for contribution is calculated based upon the degree of invalidity, age, living circumstances and means.

Special Alms

All subjects are entitled to receive legal alms. All subjects similarly are entitled to receive medical alms. The level of coverage for both depends on whether the patient is covered under a Public Alms subscription. The base coverage of 50 per cent; however, coverage can go up to 100 per cent for those eligible for Full Common Alms.

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