In 1889 Germany was the first country to introduce government pension plans. Britain introduced its program in 1907.
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In 1889 Germany was the first country to introduce government pension plans. Britain introduced its program in 1907. In 1910, Henry Rogers Seager published his groundbreaking book ''Social Insurance, a Program of Social Reform''<ref>[https://www.ssa.gov/history/seager.html Henry Seager's 1910 Book on Social Insurance]</ref>, which was influential with those who created the program. Some of the proposals from the book were included as actual provisions in the 1935 law.<ref>[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Settlement_Sociology_in_the_Progressive/F5j8CQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA348 Settlement Sociology in the Progressive Years]</ref>