THE EARL OF CORK AND ORRERYasked His Majesty's Government, whether an ex-Service man who is in receipt of a disability allowance for wounds or injuries received upon active service is required to surrender any part of that allowance before he can benefit under the Unemployment Insurance Act.
§ LORD AMMONAn ex-Service man is not required to surrender any part of his war disablement pension in order that he may receive benefit under the National Insurance Act, 1946, but regulations made under that Act may involve some adjustment of the normal rates of insurance benefit of disablement pensioners particularly where double provision would otherwise be made for dependants of the pensioner. National Insurance benefit is not payable at the same time as an unemployability supplement. The rate of unemployability supplement has recently been increased to 30s. a week, so that it will no longer be to the advantage of a war pensioner who is drawing an unemployability supplement to receive sickness or unemployment benefit instead.