ABSTRACT

Reference has already been made to the "dual system" of unemployment insurance and unemployment assistance. But the complete system of unemployment services might perhaps be more properly described as a "triple system", for Public Assistance Committees are responsible for the maintenance of a certain number of unemployed who are outside the scope of both the other services. Long-period unemployment was only one of a number of reasons why applicants were, and are being, declared to be outside scope. The experience of the Durham County Public Assistance Committee is interesting in another way. Soon after the second appointed day 269 appeals were submitted to the chairman of the Tribunals, with the result that 51 of them were allowed. The UAB was set up in order that a national standard of assistance should apply to the unemployed, and there is no reason why a small class should be excluded from the benefits of this uniformity.