Married women in national insurance / Ministry of National Insurance.

Date:
1948
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Married women in national insurance / Ministry of National Insurance. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    STANDARD BENEFIT RATE MAIN CONDITIONS : * UNEMPLOY- 20s.t If 26 Class 1 contributions were actually paid, and 50 Class ! contri- MENT butions paid or credited* fur the last contribution year before BENEFIT the benefit year in which you are unemployed. (There are fixed or “* benefit years ** starting from five months after the end of the last week shown on your contribution card and lasting for twelve months.) CLASS 1 26s.t If the above conditions are satisfied, and you are either living [CLAss 1 | apart from your husband and unable to get any financial help from him, or he is not capable of supporting himself and you ; are wholly or mainly maintaining him. — plus 16s.f If you have a relative dependent on you for whom you are paying more than half the cost of maintenance and who is not earning more than 20s. a week. (This could include your husband if he was unable to support himself because of illness but was for some reason not able to get sickness or injury benefit.) plus 7s. 6d. For your eldest child under school leaving age (you get family allowances for the others) if you are not living with your husband, or if he is unable to support himself (though if he is drawing sickness or injury benefit you could not both get this increase at the same time). SICKNESS 16s.F Conditions are the same as for unemployment benefit, except BENEFIT or that both Class 1 and 2 contributions and credits* (separately 26s.t or mixed) count for benefit. plus CLASSES 16s.t For dependants on exactly the same conditions as in the case of plus unemployment benefit. i Ts. 6d. RETIREMENT 26s.1t A—You must have reached age 60 and have retired from regular PENSION work ; if you postpone retirement you may be able to get a higher pension. B—It must be at least ten years (5 vears if your entry was before CLASSES i 30th September, 1946), since your last entry into old age 0} pensions insurance, or since 5th July, 1948, if you entered and 3 then or later. C—At least 156 contributions must have been paid (104 contri- butions if last entry into pensions insurance was before 30th September, 1946). . | D—You must have an average of 50 contributions paid or | : credited* each year since entry into insurance (or 1936, whichever is later) up to pensionable age. If condition B is not satisfied when you reech age 60 you can go ou paying contributions until it is, and you will then become entitled to pension from the date when the condition is satisfied, | | | If condition D is not fully satisfied you may qualify for a reduced | pension. The rate would depend on the average. PTE EET SEAL ATI 11 AES ELL ID ETE EBS LIGNE ILO EI EY EN IE ERLE IIE TE I IT ST OE SL EE SE TE ET ED * Contributions are credited for weeks of illness and unemployment for which you receive benefit and for certain other weeks, see leaflet N.1.43. + A reduced rate is payable if less than 50 but more than 25 contributions were paid or credited in the last contribution year before the benefit year in which the claim is made. q A MARRIED WOMAN IS NOT ENTITLED TO ANY RETIREMENT PENSION IN HER OWN RIGHT UNLESS SHE HAS EITHER PAID CONTRIBUTIONS OR RECEIVED CREDITS FOR AT LEAST HALF THE WEEKS BETWEEN THE DATE OF HER MARRIAGE (OR Sth JULY, 1948, IF LATER) AND HER 60th BIRTHDAY. NO REFUND CAN BE CLAIMED IF THIS CONDITION IS NOT SATISFIED. t ONLY ONE RETIREMENT PENSION CAN BE DRAWN. THIS MEANS THAT YOU CANNOT DRAW A _ PENSIOW OR WIDOW’S BENEFIT THROUGH YOUR HUSBAND’S INSURANCE AS WELL AS A PENSION THROUGH YOUR OWN CONTRIBUTIONS.