Welfare in China and UK

There are seven different types of UK's welfre. They are children and pregnant women welfare, disability or illness benefits, retirement benefits, widow welfare, unemployment benefits, low-income people welfare and social fund.

We can said every country has own offical retirement age. For example, in UK men official retirement age is 65, and women's age is 60. In China, at the moment men can claim their pension when they are from 60 to 65, while women can claim from 55 to 60.

In China, the government to give different subsidies of every family. Because sizes of each city and each person's income is not the same. So, the government gave subsidies are also different. The government will give the family housing subsidies, retirment pensions, and so on.

Ref:

UK retirement age. Available at:http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6788425.ece (Accessed: 8 August 2009).

Picture from: http://image.baidu.com/i?ct=503316480&z=&tn=baiduimagedetail&word=%CA%D6%C0%AD%CA%D6&in=18631&cl=2&lm=-1&pn=5&rn=1&di=36762535170&ln=2000&fr=&fmq=&ic=0&s=0&se=1&sme=0&tab=&width=&height=&face=0&is=&istype=2#pn5&-1