Practice question · True or false
New social risks fall disproportionately on people with long, continuous contribution records.
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- Ask who has a thin contribution record and why.
- They fall on women, the young and the low-skilled.
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False
Why
False: it is the reverse. The old system's protections are strongest exactly for those with long continuous records, typically older men in stable employment, while the new risks concentrate among women, the young and the low-skilled. That asymmetry is why welfare reform politics so often runs along generational and gender lines rather than the classic left-right one.
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