HELP FOR UNEMPLOYED
BRITISH BOARD'S WORK (Br2tl.it) Official Wlrulcss.) RUGBY, June 17. The magnitude of the task confronting the Unemployment Assistance Board in creating a new social service for able-bodied unemployed is described in the board's first annual report.
Appointed on July I, 1(134. (lie board was called on to sot up within six months more than 300 district offices manned by a staff of over t>ooo persons, and to appoint 130 appeal tribunals. On the first appointed day. January 7, 1935, it was required to assume the responsibility for the transitional payments class, amounting to about 800,000 applications, who, with their dependants, made a total of about 2,500,000 persons. On the second appointed day, March I, 1935, a further 200.000 applicants were taken over.
Lord RushclirTo. chairman of tho board, states in his introduction lhat no social service on such a largo scale has been attempted in this country within such a limited period. Fears that the board will prove soulless and bureaucratic have proved groundless, he says. Many examples are quoted of the way in which officers have given extra assistance in cases of special need. ,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 144, 19 June 1936, Page 9
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188HELP FOR UNEMPLOYED Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 144, 19 June 1936, Page 9
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