Family Guide to the National Insurance Scheme
1948 1948 1940s 32 pages : illustrations The rate of benefit is 36s. a week, normally payable from a date six weeks before the expected confinement, for a period of 13 weeks. To qualify the mother must have paid Class 1 or Class 2 contributions for at least half of the previous 52 weeks. Also in at...
| 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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The rate of benefit is 36s. a week, normally payable from a date six weeks before the expected confinement, for a period of 13 weeks. To qualify the mother must have paid Class 1 or Class 2 contributions for at least half of the previous 52 weeks. Also in at least 45 of these weeks she must have been at work, or registered as unemployed or sick. But a married woman with this employment record can get the Allowance even though she has chosen not to pay contributions. 31. Attendance Allowance. This allowance is paid to those women who are not entitled to Maternity Allowance. A woman cannot draw both. The rate of benefit is 20s. a week for the four weeks after the baby is born. It is paid in addition to the Maternity Grant, either on the mother's own insurance or on her husband's. The qualifications are the same as for Maternity Grant. WIDOW'S BENEFIT There are three kinds of Widow's Benefit, all based upon the husband's contributions only. The contribution conditions which must have been satisfied by the husband are, in general, the same as those for Retirement Pension (see para. 40). 32. Widow's Allowance. Unless the widow is already a retirement pensioner she will usually get an allowance of 36s. a week for 13 weeks, with an extra 7s. 6d. a week for the first child under school leaving age. The allowance will not be paid if the widow is over 60 and her husband was a retirement pensioner. 33. Widowed Mother's Allowance. If a widow has a child under school leaving age she will receive a Widowed Mother's 21
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