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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5208, 25 November 1927, Page 4

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NEW CLASS PROVIDED. The British Government’s Unemployment Insurance Bill, which was introduced in the House of Commons by Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland on July 27, and was based largely upon the proposals in the report of the committee presided over by Lord Blanesburgh( has been. published. Its principal feature is the creation of a new class of insured persons—between the ages of 18 and 21—for whom new weekly rates of contribution and benefit are prescribed as follows for young men and young women respectively : Employer, 6d and sd; employee, 7d and 6d ; State, 5%d and 3%d ; benefit, 10s and Bs. At present those young people receive the same benefits (18s and 15s) and pay the same contributions as those over 21.

The B : ll proposes that the weekly benefit for men with no adult dependants shall be reduced from 18s to 17s. The benefit for an adult dependant, is increased from 5s to 7s, so that a man over 21 with an adult dependant will receive) 245, an increase of Is on the present rate.

Boys and girls between 16 and 18 years of age will, receive 6s and ss, instead of. their present rates of 7s 6d and 6s.

The revised rates come into operation on April 19, 1928, except the new rates for men and women between 18 and 21 years of age, which come into force at the beginning of the next insurance year,” July, 1928.

1 Cases in which benefit is payable in respect of a dependent mother aie extended to cover a widowed stepmother, a mother who has never been married, and a mother whose husband is permanently disabled. After a transitional period it will be a condition for .the receipt; of benefit that at least thirty contributions (in the case of disabled ex-service men 15 contributions) have been paid in the two years preceding the date of a claim.