Download or read book Social Security Law written by Robert East and published by Palgrave. This book was released on 1999-08-26 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Security Law is an up-to-date, critical, yet authoritative account of the British social security system and its legal framework. It sets out the principal features of the main social benefits, giving a detailed exposition of the legal basis of entitlement to each benefit. It then takes the reader several steps further in placing the understanding of social security law into its wider social, political, historical and European context.