CONTENTS Acknowledgements Introduction Part I. The origins of the Unemployment Assistance Board Chapter 1.

The crisis and the means test. Chapter 2. The revolt of the Relief Committees. Chapter 3. Chamberlains conversion. Chapter 4. The plan takes shape. Chapter 5. The Bill in Parliament. Chapter 6. The Board. Part II. Planning and preparation Chapter 7. Setting up the machinery. Chapter 8. The national minimum. Chapter 9. The household means test: (1) Earnings. Chapter 10. The household means test: (2) Other resources. Chapter 11. Political intervention. Part III. The standstill Chapter 12. The cuts. Chapter 13. The standstill. Chapter 14. Back to the drawing board. Chapter 15. Pride and compromise: (1) Localism. Chapter 16. Pride and compromise: (2) The board and the cabinet. Chapter 17. A new start. Chapter 18. Take-over from the Poor Law. Part IV. Unemployment assistance in practice Chapter 19. Housing costs. Chapter 20. The benefit gap: supplementation and waiting days. Chapter 21. Work incentives and the wage stop. Chapter 22. Winter and the cost of living. Chapter 23. Reconditioning the unemployed. Chapter 24. Cases of special difficulty. Chapter 25. Discretionary additions. Chapter 26. Lump sum payments. Chapter 27. The caller problem. Chapter 28. Leaving home.

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Chapter 29. Appeals. References Tables 1. Departmental origins of senior staff of the Unemployment Assistance Board, 1935. Page 7/6

2. Minimum income requirements in 1934, using alternative dietary standards. Page 8/8 3. Number of exceptional needs grants in England, Wales, Scotland and Great Britain and percentage in each country, 1935-1939. Page 26/15 4. Numbers of appeals lodged and number for which leave to appeal was granted or refused in each year, 1935-1938. Page 29/6

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