§ Mr. LANSBURYasked the Minister of Labour if he has issued an instruction to the Employment Exchanges that when paying unemployment pay they may enter into arrangements with boards of guardians to deduct payment for relief which the recipient of unemployment pay may have received; and whether he is aware that at an Employment Exchange in Birmingham this course has been adopted?
§ Sir M. BARLOWWhen relief is granted by guardians in excess of what would have been paid, had the recipient been drawing benefit, and benefit is subsequently granted for the period for which the relief was paid, Section 14 of the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1922, expressly authorises the deduction from that benefit and the repayment to the3194W guardians of the amount of the excess relief so paid. Were it not for this provision the applicant would receive in respect of the same period both the benefit and the excess relief which was granted in place of benefit. Instructions on this point have been issued to local officers of the Department.