HC Deb 12 March 1941 vol 369 c1307

Resolution reported:

"That for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to abolish the requirement that in determining the need and assessing the needs of applicants for unemployment assistance or supplementary pensions the resources of all members of their households must be taken into account, to make further provision for the determination of need and the assessment of needs in the case of such applicants and in connection with financial assistance to blind persons and to provide for the winding-up of the Unemployment Assistance Fund (hereinafter referred to as 'the said Act') it is expedient to authorize— I. the payment out of moneys provided by Parliament of any amounts by which the sums required for the payment of allowances under the Unemployment Assistance Act, 1934, and of supplementary pensions under the Old Age and Widows' Pensions Act, 1940, are increased—

  1. (a) by reason of any provisions of the said Act altering the statutory requirements as to the determination of the need and the assessment of the needs of applicants who are members of households; and
  2. (b) by reason of any provisions of the said Act requiring that in computing there sources of any person whose resources are taken into account in determining the need or assessing the needs of applicants for such allowances and supplementary pensions as aforesaid, any money and investments treated as capital assets of that person up to the amount of his war savings, but not exceeding three hundred and seventy-five pounds, shall be disregarded. together with the income there from in addition to any money and investments which would be otherwise disregarded;
and of such sums as may be necessary to defray the expenses of the Assistance Beard. including the amount of the allowances issued under the Unemployment Assistance Act, 1034; and

II. the payment into the Exchequer of ail sums received by the Assistance Board."

Resolution agreed to.