The Purpose and Organisation of the Alimenta
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Le début de l’aide étatique aux enfants dans le besoin
1.11.1964 by Richard Duncan-Jones
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 August 2013
Extract
The opening of Trajan’s reign saw the propagation in Italy of a system of government alimenta or subsistence payments, which had perhaps been begun by his predecessor, Nerva. Their immediate purpose was clearly the support of children in the small inland towns of Italy at which units of the scheme were mainly concentrated. Male recipients of the alimentary dole were given a cash payment of HS16 per month; girls received HS12 per month, the amounts given to illegitimate children being somewhat lower for both sexes. Hadrian laid down that boys who benefited were to be given support until the age of 18, and girls until 14; under Trajan, the ages at which support ceased had presumably been lower. The scheme was financed by grants from the fiscus which were placed with landowners in the districts in which children were to be supported. In general, each landowner who took part in the loans received a sum amounting to about 8% of the stated value of his land, and had to pay to the city interest of 5% per year, which formed the income from which the children were supported.
Papers of the British School at Rome , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , November 1964 , pp. 123 - 146
DOI: ▻https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068246200007261
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