ABSTRACT
The unemployment assistance board (UAB) is responsible for all the needs of the applicant and his dependants, except for medical needs. Co-operation between the UAB and local public assistance committees (PAC) is necessarily very close. The Board has set up a Consultative Committee which deals with the various administrative contacts between itself and the services provided by local authorities and in particular with public assistance. The chief reason for co-operation is the Board's inability to meet medical needs of any kind, so that in so far as these are not provided under national health insurance, the PAC has to be responsible for them. There are cases of households receiving both unemployment assistance and outdoor relief, where it is the PAC.'s practice to reduce relief by the amount by which allowances exceed the relief scale. Sometimes the UAB is involved in additional expense because it has a particularly high standard.
