Captain FABERasked the President of the Board of Trade whether a man who has been employed in an insured trade and who has paid the unemployment tax gets any benefit from this tax on leaving the insured trade and returning to work on the land?
Mr. ROBERTSONIf, as in the case mentioned by the hon. Member, a workman having been engaged at an insured trade takes other work, his liability to contribute under Part II. of the Act ceases until he resumes work at an insured trade. If he becomes unemployed subsequently to his leaving the insured trade, he does not lose the right to benefit, but can, subject to the fulfilment of the statutory conditions, obtain unemployment benefit in proportion to the contributions which he has already made; or, if he does not draw benefit, he can at age sixty obtain a refund of the contributions under Section 95.