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Continue to ChatThere was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief. - Barbara Castle from https://whatsmyquote.com/quote/there-was-no-welfare-state-and-people-had-to-rely-mainly-on-the-poor-law-that-was-all-the-state-provided-it