Family Guide to the National Insurance Scheme
1948 1948 1940s 32 pages : illustrations during a benefit year will depend upon the contributions paid or credited during your previous contribution year. 12. During the Change-over. The contribution conditions will not apply in full at the beginning of the new Scheme. In Part Three — und...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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| Language: | English English |
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[London] : His Majesty's Stationery Office
[1948]
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| Summary: | 1948
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32 pages : illustrations
during a benefit year will depend upon the contributions paid or credited during your previous contribution year. 12. During the Change-over. The contribution conditions will not apply in full at the beginning of the new Scheme. In Part Three — under each benefit — you will find the ways in which the conditions are adjusted to take account of insurance under the present Schemes. 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. How do I claim Benefit? SICKNESS BENEFIT. If you fall sick, you should get a medical certificate from your doctor the first time he sees you. Fill in both sides of the certificate and take or post it AT ONCE to your National Insurance Office. You may lose benefit if the certificate or some other written notice of incapacity is not sent to the office within three days of your falling sick. You should send in further certificates, usually week by week, so long as your illness lasts. UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT. If you are unemployed and want to claim benefit, take your contribution card to the Employment Exchange at once, register for employment and make a claim. Any delay may mean loss of benefit. MATERNITY BENEFIT. Eight weeks before the baby is expected, you should get from your National Insurance Office or Maternity Clinic a claim form which will include a certificate to be filled in by your doctor or midwife. OTHER BENEFITS. You, or someone on your behalf, should call at or write to your local National Insurance Office. But, until 11
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