Citation 1924 c.1 Commencement 21 February 1924 | Royal assent 21 February 1924 | |
Long title An Act to repeal proviso (2) to section two of the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1923. Repealed by Unemployment Insurance (No. 2) Act 1924, Third Schedule Relates to Unemployment Insurance Act 1920, Unemployment Insurance Act 1923, | ||
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.
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Unemployment Insurance Act 1924 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA