Family Guide to the National Insurance Scheme
1948 1948 1940s 32 pages : illustrations except that the standard rate for insured married women is 20s. instead of 16s. a week. 25. What are the Contribution Conditions? To qualify for Unemployment Benefit you must have paid 26 Class 1 contributions at some time. The standard rate of benefit is pa...
| 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
except that the standard rate for insured married women is 20s. instead of 16s. a week. 25. What are the Contribution Conditions? To qualify for Unemployment Benefit you must have paid 26 Class 1 contributions at some time. The standard rate of benefit is payable during a benefit year if, in the previous contribution year, you have paid or had credited 50 Class 1 contributions. Until the first benefit years under the new Scheme start, you will be able to get Unemployment Benefit at the full rate under the present rules, which require payment of 30 contributions in the last two years. Contributions under the present scheme of Unemployment Insurance, as well as Class 1 contributions, will all count towards the 30. 26. How Long may I Draw Unemployment Benefit ? In the first place for 180 days. But you may be entitled to additional days of benefit, if you have a good contribution record and have not drawn much benefit in recent years. With these you may be entitled to as much as a year's benefit in all. If these rights are used up, standard benefit will not again be paid until there has been a further 13 weeks of Class 1 employment. But anyone who has run out of standard benefit may apply to the local Tribunal, which will take local industrial conditions into account and recommend whether extended benefit should be paid. This extended Unemployment Benefit is paid out of general taxation, not out of National Insurance contributions. The Tribunal will not inquire into means. 27. Waiting Period. As for Sickness Benefit. 28. Disqualifications. Unemployment Benefit is paid only while you are unemployed and not receiving wages, and while you are holding yourself available for further work. You may be disqualified for a period of up to six weeks if you : 19
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