UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS
NEW SCHEME IN BRITAIN REVISED SCALE OF PAYMENTS AND ALLOWANCES ‘ (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, December 12. Substantial increases in the scale of relief to the unemployed and their dependents, who are now on . transitional payment, will come into force on January 7 under the new scheme, which makes unemployment wholly a national charge. Local rates will be relieved by about £5,000,000. About 1,000,000 poor law applicants and persons, receiving transitional benefit, who, with their families, number about 4,000,000 people, will benefit. In general, people with families will be paid more, and many who have no children may receive less. Those in low rental areas may lose, while -those in highly rented towns will gain. The main provisions are a new basic scale of payments and allowances for children varying according to age, a sliding scale to meet special rent paymdnts, a new method of calculating resources and savings, and revision of the demands on sous and other relatives. The increases, particularly to children, are bigger than anticipated. ' •
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Evening Star, Issue 21903, 14 December 1934, Page 11
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172UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS Evening Star, Issue 21903, 14 December 1934, Page 11
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