Unemployment Benefit

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Pensions and National Insurance – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 3 December 1962.

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Photo of Mrs Margaret Thatcher Mrs Margaret Thatcher Parliamentary Secretary (Ministry of Pensions and Insurance) 12:00, 3 December 1962

As my right hon. Friend has already said, I think that only about one person in five of those in receipt of unemployment benefit is now receiving National Assistance. National Assistance is meant for this kind of contingency. Those suddenly faced with misfortune should be able to get extra help, and National Assistance does, indeed, act in that way.