Unemployment Insurance Act 1924
| Act of Parliament | |
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| Long title | An Act to repeal proviso (2) to section two of the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1923. |
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| Citation | 14 & 15 Geo. 5. c. 1 |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 21 February 1924 |
| Commencement | 21 February 1924 |
| Other legislation | |
| Repealed by | Unemployment Insurance (No. 2) Act 1924, Third Schedule |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Status: Repealed | |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
- ^ "Reform and the Great Depression". The National Archives. Retrieved 4 February 2012.