BRITISH UNEMPLOYED.
BENEFIT PAYMENT INCREASED. LONDON, Feb. 24. In committee on the Unemployment Bill Mi’. J. R. Clynes moved to increase the benefit payment to 40/- for the head of a family and 25/- for others. This was not a fanciful, extravagant figure. The sum of 40/- was only equal to 15s in pre-war days. It was the business of the Government to find the money. Mr. T. Macnamara, Minister of Labor, said the scheme would hopelessly bankrupt the insurance fund. Sir Donald Maclean said he could not vote for 40s, as it would wipe out the whole scheme, but he favored 20s. Mr. G. N. Barnes, Sir Edward Carson, and others urged the Government to increase the benefit to 20s. Mr. T. Macnamara consented, and Mr. Clynes withdrew his amendment.— A. and N.Z.C.A.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15456, 26 February 1921, Page 3
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