UNEMPLOYMENT PAY

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 121, 18 November 1929, Page 11

UNEMPLOYMENT PAY

INCREASE IN ENGLAND

GOVERNMENT BILL

British Official Wireless.

RUGBY, loth November. The. Government's new Unemployment Insurance Bill, the text of which was read to-day, increases the allowances to the wives, of unemployed men from 7s to 9s a week, and also increases the- allowances to unemployed young men and young women under 21. "Whereas at present unemployment pay is made to boys and girls from the age of 16, the- Bill proposes to make an allowance to boys and girls at the age of 15. Thia provision is to take effect as soon as the age of leaving school is raised from 14 to 15, which tho Government proposed to do in 1931. Boys of 15 who are unemployed will then receive an allowance of Cs a week and girls will be granted os. _ When the Bill comes into full 'operation the total charge on the Treasury for Unemployment Insurance will be £24,500,000, the new proposals involving an increase of £12,500,000 over the present expenditure. Members of the Labour Left Wing express dissatisfaction with tho Bill. They wish to increase the allowances' notably'for men with families. Acceptance of the full scale which they propose would cost the Treasury an additional sum -of £11,300,000. Mr Snowden, Chancellor of the Exchequer," has resisted these demands on the ground that the money is not available. . *