ABSTRACT
This chapter is mainly concerned with the ways in which the Supplementary Benefits Commission exercises its responsibilities. It explores two preliminary issues; first, the implication of the ‘requirement to register for work’ and, second, the role of the Department of Employment and Productivity in relation to these men. Quarterly signing is also considered for those whose prospects of employment are handicapped due to physical disability, mental disability or age, and who have been unemployed for at least one year. Similar conditions about fraud and voluntary unemployment also apply but a judgement is required in each individual case as to the likelihood of an early placing in employment. In the period 1966-1970 an average of 1,700 men attended Re-establishment Centres each year. Many of the men in the Reception Centres are, of course, rootless and transient and in such cases effective liasion is much more difficult to achieve.
