ABUSES OF DOLE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 74, 6 March 1931, Page 5

ABUSES OF DOLE.

?AY IN IDLENESS. DRAIN OF MARRIED WOMEN. HUGE JUMP IN CLAIMS. Abuses of the dole were revealed by Mr James F. O. Price, assistant principal secretary to the Ministry of Labour, who is in charge of the enemployment insurance department* Westminster before the Unemployment Insurance Commission inquiring into the provisions and working of the scheme. In reply to Judge Holman Gregory, the chairman, Mr Price said that a man who lost his insuranbe employment was allowed to receive payment for subsidiary employment and also to draw unemployment benefit provided that he did not receive more than £1 a week from his odd jobs. Cases had come to the notice of his department of wages from subsidiary occupations being reduced so that unemployment benefit could be obtained as well as the additional remuneration. NOT OBLIGED TO SEEK WORK. Judge Holman Gregory: A married man with four children would receive 34/- a week benefit and could earn another £1 a week?—ln addition to that his wife might also be earning from a main occupation and also have subsidiary employment. It would not be much encouragement to a man to look for work in his main occupation?—There is no obligation now to look for work.