“…To qualify for Unemployment Benefit you must have paid 26 Class 1 contributions at some time. …”

“…This can only be done by adjusting unemployment benefit to wages, which would be impossible under a scheme of contract of the type implicit in Sir William Beveridge's Report. 15. …”

“…However those married women who earn will have the option of entering insurance in Class I or Class II as appropriate, and then getting sickness and unemployment benefit in their own right, though at a lower rate than the single women. …”

“…They propose to pay unemployment benefit for thirty weeks, and after that it stops. …”

“…Newcomers into insurance who claim Sickness or Unemployment Benefit in the first year or two will be helped to satisfy the second condition (but not the first) by being given "credits" for weeks before their insurance started. 13. …”

“…Reference has already been made in Clause 14 of the Report to the restriction to six months of the statutory right to unemployment benefit. It should be pointed out that safeguards against 200/B/3/2/C216/5/93…”

“…For increasing unemployment benefit and sick benefit to new level. £42,000,000. 22 15X/2/103/272…”

“…The rates of Unemployment Benefit are the same as the rates for Sickness Benefit 18 345/3/2/10…”

“…SICKNESS BENEFIT UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT MATERNITY BENEFIT GUARDIAN'S ALLOWANCE Maternity Grant RETIREMENT PENSION Maternity Allowance DEATH GRANT Attendance Allowance INDUSTRIAL INJURY BENEFITS WIDOW'S BENEFIT Injury Benefit Widow's Allowance Disablement Benefit Widowed Mother's Allowance Death Benefit Widow's Pension The benefits for which you are covered will depend on the class of contributions paid. …”

“…1948 1948 1940s 32 pages : illustrations CONTENTS PART ONE: How the Scheme Works Paragraphs Paragraphs What the National Insurance Scheme is ...... 1 Contribution Conditions for Benefit 9-12 Who Will Be Contributors 2 How to Claim Benefit 13 What to Do 3 Your National Insurance Number 14 Your National Insurance Office 4 Main Rates of Contributions 5 How and Where Benefits are Paid 15 How Contributions are Paid 6 When Contributions Need Not be Paid 7 No Double Payment 16 Decisions and Appeals 17 List of Benefits...... 8 Effect of Income Tax 18 PART TWO: Married Women in National Insurance para. 19 PART THREE: National Insurance Benefits Explained Sickness Benefit 20-23 Widow's Benefit 32-36 Unemployment Benefit 24-28 Guardian's Allowance 37 Maternity Benefit 29-31 Retirement Pension 38-46 Death Grant para. 47 PART FOUR: Industrial Injury Benefits Explained Scope of Industrial Injury Insurance 48-52 Injury Benefit 53 Disablement Benefit 54-55 Death Benefit para. 56 PART FIVE: Related Social Services Family Allowances 57 National Health Service 58 National Assistance para. 59 345/3/2/10…”

“…For instance, his Sickness or Unemployment Benefit is increased for his wife, and his contributions provide benefits for her in maternity and widowhood. …”

“…1948 1948 1940s 32 pages : illustrations A married woman who contributes will, if qualified, be able to draw Sickness and Unemployment Benefit, even though her husband is working, but at special rates. …”

“…THE NEW FEATURES We appreciate that it would be wrong to look at the Beveridge Proposals through the distorting lens of any past experience, viewing it only as a scheme for improved unemployment benefits missing the important new features of the plan. 7 15X/2/103/272…”

“…For all wage- or salary-earners Extension of unemployment benefits beyond 26 weeks if required; industrial pensions after 13 weeks of incapacity due to injury or accident. …”

“…If for any reason you want arrangements made for your benefit to be brought to your home, you should explain your position to the Office. Unemployment Benefit In cash at your Employment Exchange, unless you live at & distance, when it may be paid by post. …”

“…It is the fact that sick benefits (unlike unemployed benefits) were regarded as being outside politics, which explains the scandalous situation whereby a sick worker receives 18/- per week, with no allowance for his wife or family, as compared with an unemployed worker's 30/- for himself and wife and 4/- for each of the first two children. …”

“…We recommend therefore that they shall be given unemployment benefit for a period if on completion of training they — or the Labour Exchange acting on their behalf — are unable to find them a job. …”

“…He gets cash benefit (lower than unemployment benefit) through Approved Society (and possibly from a Voluntary Society). …”

“…Still less should the payment of unemployment benefit be separated from the agency which tests a man's unemployment claim and tries to find him a suitable job. …”

“…Your rate of Sickness or Unemployment Benefit 10 345/3/2/10…”