HC Deb 23 July 1922 vol 155 cc1545-6W
Captain W. BENN

asked the Minister of Labour whether, after receiving 90 days' covenanted unemployment benefit, an insured person, if still unemployed, is entitled to uncovenanted benefit?

Dr. MACNAMARA

The Unemployment Insurance Act, 1922, provides for a maximum of 90 days' benefit, whether covenanted or uncovenanted, in the present special period which ends on the 1st November next. Further benefit—up to a maximum in certain circumstances of 22 weeks—becomes payable in the period from 2nd November next to 1st July, 1923.