By adding and creating many social programs and policies, Canada became more structured. In 1945, Mackenzie King put the postwar program into effect. This program, including many other social programs was made to help people get back to the way their lives were before the war began. It included important social welfare prolusions like family allowances which was introduced in 1944, old age pension which was made back in 1927, and health and worker's insurance. Family allowance was a monthly allowance paid to families with children to help cover the costs of childcare. It was Canada's first universal welfare program and was used until 1992. Old age pension came into effect in 1927 and was financed by federal and provincial government. It paid up to about twenty dollars a month and was available to citizens seventy years of age or older who have lived in Canada for more than twenty years. Over the years, the pension was raised to fit costly needs to more citizens. This program helped many elderly people sustain a healthy and longer life by providing them with a source of money. All these social programs and policies had benefits to Canadians across the country. Besides these programs, Mackenzie King also provided measures to help people who were at war transition back into civilian life. Mackenzie King clears his objectives on the postwar in the following quotation: "On another occasion I hope to speak about the plans of the government to achieve, once the war is won, what I have previously defined as a national minimum social security and human welfare, not for labor only but for all the people. The national minimum should embrace useful employment for all who are willing to work; standards of nutrition and housing, adequate to ensure the health of the whole population; social insurance against privation resulting from unemployment, from accident, from death of the bread-winner, from ill health and from old age.