UNEMPLOYED MEN
NEW BRITISH POLICY.
Assistance Board Begins Its Career. CARE OF 4,000,000 PEOPLE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, January S. What is described as a new chapter in the social history of Britain was opened yesterday when the Unemployment Assistance Board began its career as the national authority charged with the maintenance and welfare-- of able-bodied unemployed.
Lord. Betterton, formerly Minister of Labour, abandoned polities to become the first chairman of the board.
The new body will assume its functions in two stages. From yesterday about 750,000 persons receiving transitional payments, which in future will be known as unemployed assistance allowances, will come within its care, and in three months' time it will take over the responsibility for all ablebodied unemployed men entitled to help from the local public assistance authorities.
After that date, upon present estimates, if dependants are included, the board will have charge of about 4,000,000 people and will administer about £55,000,000 a year. It will have a staff throughout the country of 0000 officials. ■
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 7, 9 January 1935, Page 7
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