The National Insurance Act 1911 : being a treatise on the scheme of national health insurance and insurance against unemployment created by that Act, with the incorporated enactments, full explanatory notes, tables, and examples / by Orme Clarke.

  • Clarke, Orme (Orme Bigland)
Date:
1912
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Credit: The National Insurance Act 1911 : being a treatise on the scheme of national health insurance and insurance against unemployment created by that Act, with the incorporated enactments, full explanatory notes, tables, and examples / by Orme Clarke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    prove that they are members of an Association which has agreed to undertake the administration of Unemployment benefit. The workmen will then look to the Association for the payment of any unemployment benefit to which they may be entitled. At the end of a given period the Board of Trade will settle up accounts with the Association, and will repay to the Association out of the Unemployment Fund three-quarters of the amount which the Association has paid out in unemploy- ment benefit to workmen. But the amount so repaid cannot exceed the amount the workman would have received in Un- employment benefit from the Unemployment Fund if no such arrangement had been made. A simple calculation will show that it will not be to the advantage of any Association to enter into an arrangement of this kind with the Board of Trade unless the unemployment benefit which they are prepared to give is at least as much as 9s. 4d. per week. The effect of making such an arrangement on an Association should be, that the Association will be enabled to retain a hold over their members, and, if the Association can afford to pay substantially more than 7s. per week in unemployment benefit, that fact will form a considerable inducement to other workmen to become members of the Association. It is estimated [Cd. 5991] that the membership of Trade Unions in the Insured Trades at the end of 1909 was 462,000, of whom about 350,000 belonged to Unions providing unemploy- ment benefits. It will be interesting to see whether this provision will have the effect of increasing that membership. Sec. 105.
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