The Unemployment Assistance Board was a body created in

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by the

Unemployment Act 1934 The Unemployment Act 1934 was an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom, reaching statute on 28 June 1934. It reduced the age at which a person entered the National Insurance scheme to 14 and made the claiming age 16 years. It also separated bene ...

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/ref> due to the high levels of inter-war poverty in Britain. The Board kept a system of

means-tested benefit A means test is a determination of whether an individual or family is eligible for government assistance or welfare, based upon whether the individual or family possesses the means to do without that help. Canada In Canada, means tests are use ...

s and increased the number of people who could claim relief.

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