§ 8. Mr. R. YOUNGasked the Minister of Pensions whether a discharged soldier, temporarily unfit for work and receiving while in hospital 100 per cent. allowance, is entitled to any benefit under the National Insurance Acts while in hospital?
§ Mr. PARKER (Lord of the Treasury, for Sir A. Mond)Sickness or disablement benefit is not payable to an insured person while he is an inmate of a hospital or similar institution, but the whole or part of the benefit is paid to his dependants, if any, or may be applied towards meeting any expenses for which the insured person may be liable otherwise than to the hospital, or, with his consent, may be paid to the hospital if it is not maintained out of public funds. So far as the money is not used in any of these ways, it becomes payable to the insured person on leaving the hospital. In the special case where the insured person is a discharged soldier in receipt of 100 per cent. allowance, the rate of sickness (or disablement) benefit is reduced by 7s. 6d. a week, unless he has been employed for 26 (or 104) weeks since discharge from the Army.