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Unemployment Insurance Act 1924

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Unemployment Insurance Act 1924
Act of Parliament
Long titleAn Act to repeal proviso (2) to section two of the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1923.
Citation14 & 15 Geo. 5. c. 1
Dates
Royal assent21 February 1924
Commencement21 February 1924
Other legislation
Repealed byUnemployment Insurance (No. 2) Act 1924, Third Schedule
Relates to
Status: Repealed

The Unemployment Insurance Act 1924 was passed when the British Labour Party was in power in 1924. The Act arose from a dispute over the means testing of benefits. The Labour Cabinet disagreed on whether means testing should be abolished or whether such a move would prove too costly. The compromise was that the test for receiving benefits would be whether a person was "genuinely seeking work". The 1924 Act extended to "genuinely seeking work" test to all benefited claims. [1]

References

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  1. ^ "Reform and the Great Depression". The National Archives. Retrieved 4 February 2012.