Unemployment Insurance Act 1924

Unemployment Insurance Act 1924

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to repeal proviso (2) to section two of the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1923.
Citation	1924 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Repealed by	Unemployment Insurance (No. 2) Act 1924, Third Schedule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	Unemployment Insurance Act 1920, Unemployment Insurance Act 1923,
Status: Repealed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

1. "Reform and the Great Depression". The National Archives. Retrieved 2012-02-04.