AID TO WORKLESS
BIG TASK IN BRITAIN
BOARD WORK REVIEWED (British Official Wiroloss.) Reed. 9.30 a.m. RUGBY, June 17. The magnitude of the task confronting the Unemployment Assistance Board in Treating a new social service for ablebodied unemployed is described in the board's first annual report.
Appointed on July 1, 1934, the board was called on to set up, within six months, more than 300 district offices manned by a staff of over 6000 persons, and to appoint 130 appeal tribunals on the first appointed day, January 7, 1935. Tt was required to assume the responsibility for transitional payments and to class applications amounting to about 800,000 from persons, who, with their dependants, made a total of about 2.500,000 persons. On a, second appointed day. March 1, 1935, a further 200,000 applicants had to be taken over. Lord Ruschcliife, the chairman of the board, slates in his introduction to the report that no social service on such a large scale has been attempted in this country within such a limited period. "Fears that the board would prove soulless and bureaucratic have proved groundless," he. continued. Many examples are quoted of the way in which officers have given extra assistance in cases of special need.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19045, 19 June 1936, Page 5
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204AID TO WORKLESS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19045, 19 June 1936, Page 5
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