WORK & WELFARE

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 171, 15 April 1933, Page 11

WORK & WELFARE

Aid for Unemployed NEW BRITISH PLAN Move on National Basis MINISTRY’S INTENTIONS Official Wireless. Rugby, A Pr il „ l i 7; The Minister of Health, Hflton Young, announced in the . Commons that before introsession the Government "‘ ,u -K- a (.j ona | <lnce a Bill dealing on a basis, with the problem of assist for those who were m, need o sistatnee, including t,lOS ® _ lovine nt, been insured against unemp • but who were no longer so insnr <l. Official Wireless. Rugby, April 1--of giving help and the work of! prom inc the physical and mental welfare of unemployed by training occupation an reC T r h e e ati ßni would establish a measure of national control. It would redl^ rl j bate the duties and functions of! local authorities and the Central G ment in relation to a^ sl . stan , ce n^“RieS lie funds, whether of local or funds of the Exchequer. One of the bases of this redistribution ofrespomsibllity between local authority an Central Government would be that the Central Government would accept responsibility both administrative and financial for assisting all able-bodied unemployed who needed assistance. The Government would accept responsibility for assistance to all able-bodied unemployed under 65 years old, said blr Hilton, with such readjustments In financial relations between the Exchequer and local authorities as was reasonable, having regard to the necessities of distressed areas.