Workhouse test
Non-implemented restriction on welfare (U.K.)
The workhouse test was a condition of the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834. It stated that anyone who wanted to get poor relief must enter a workhouse. The condition was never implemented in Britain and outdoor relief continued to be given.[1] The intended purpose was to make the workhouses as undesirable as possible so that people would look for work elsewhere before attempting to receive indoor relief.[2] The "test" itself was, in essence, were the people who wanted relief desperate enough to enter the workhouse, despite the conditions.
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Poor laws of the British Isles
- England and Wales
- Scotland
- Ireland
- Isle of Man
Nantwich workhouse
- Vagabonds and Beggars Act 1494
- Tudor poor laws
- Poor Relief Act 1597
- Poor Relief Act 1601
- Poor Relief Act 1662
- Relief of the Poor Act 1696
- Poor Relief Act 1722
- Relief of the Poor Act 1782
- House of correction
- Overseer of the poor
- Poor rate
- Poor relief
- Buttock mail
- Royal commission (1832)
- Poor Law Amendment Act 1834
- Poor Law (Scotland) Act 1845
- Less eligibility
- Workhouse
- Workhouse test
- Board of guardians
- Outdoor Labour Test Order
- Outdoor Relief Prohibitory Order
- Poor law unions
- Opposition
- Book of Murder
- Scottish poorhouse
- Liberal welfare reforms
- Royal Commission (1905–09)
- Majority Report
- Minority Report
- Interwar poverty
- National Assistance Act 1948
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