Practice question · Multiple choice
Why is a state that delivers pensions administratively different in kind from one that delivers only justice and defence?
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- Ask what a pension system has to do every month, for forty years.
- Continuous individual records are not what a court needs.
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C. It needs continuous contact with millions of individuals and records maintained over decades
Why
Because a pension is a continuous relationship, not a decision. It needs individual records maintained for decades, national coverage, and a payment made every month without fail. The liberal state's administration applied rules to cases as they arose, and nothing in it prepared for that.
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