사회 Targeting better social security: New Zealand Experience
The Social Security Act 1938 is the law enacted by the New Zealand Act of Parliament concerning unemployment benefits that established New Zealand. This Act is essential in the history of social welfare, as it showed the first-ever social security system in the world. After taking the 1935 election, the newly elected First Labour Government immediately announced a Christmas bonus to the unemployed. However, a standard unemployment benefit was not introduced until the enacting the Social Security Act 1938; that benefit "is payable to any persons 16 years of age and over who lived in New Zealand