WELFARE STATE

council accommodation, unborn child to be taken into account when giving - 1995, 126/127, 138
disabled needs, local authority must take available resources into account - 1998, 136/137, 66
family breakdown, interplay with welfare state - 1993, 118/119, 111
funeral costs for those on benefits, concerns over lack of sufficient funds to cover; claims process is confusing and time consuming - 2015, 175, 227
homelessness: less people sleeping rough in 2020 than previous year but more deaths; problems of court access for tenants facing eviction - 2021, 186, 44
Lutheran reformation: influence still seen in most Western legal systems e.g. mixed Church / State jurisdictions for marriage, welfare and education - 2017, 178, 6
mandatory & discretionary provision, budgets for providing disability grants - 1999, 140/141, 77
members of religious orders fully maintained by their order are not entitled to state pension credit (case) - 2010, 165, 235; upheld on appeal until such time as order cannot maintain them - 2011, 166, 98
orthodox Jew denied Jobseeker's Allowance since willing to work but not on Shabbat, allowed to appeal (case) - 2013, 171, 123
weakening of marriage causing financial costs to the state - 1996, 128/129, 35
welfare as a deterrent to asylum claims - 1998, 138/139, 80
welfare law, families & benefits - 1996, 128/129, 29
Welfare State and Christian concerns over its challenges to freedom - 2013, 170, 19
Germany
Lutheran reforms: denounced voluntary poverty (previously esteemed), & the church as an object and subject of charity; instituted local state welfare - 2017, 178, 6
Poland
blanket refusal for surviving same-sex partners to suceed to social housing tenancy (as married would) is discrimination - 2010, 165, 226
Republic of Ireland
philosophy and practice since 1945 - 1983, 78/79, 78
Spain
ministers of Evangelical Church treated differently from R.C. clergy for state pension service, violates rights (ECHR) - 2012, 168, 129
ministers of religion and social security law - 2004, 153, 100
United States of America
care for the elderly, economic and moral considerations - 1986, 90/91, 110

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