has joined margaret doyle from the accountancy firm deloitte hasjoined us.contributions. when we think of the changer system and the rationale behind it, the fairness rationale, is that something that people will happily accept? what do you think the impact will be?” think people will accept it for a couple of reasons, one of which is that historically, there was a rationale for that lower rate of contributions, which was that the benefits that you got as an employee we re benefits that you got as an employee were that much greater, so there are three main types of benefit that national insurance pays for: the state pension, jobseeker‘s allowa nce, state pension, jobseeker‘s allowance, and maternity pay. we know that we now have a single rate state pension, so that has been equalised. the chancellor signalled today that he is looking at the rate of maternity pay, and it seemed to me that he might be looking at equalising that, and we know there isa equalising that, and we know there is a underway already in jobseeker‘s allowa nce is a underway already in job