The Unemployment Insurance Act 1921 was an

Act of Parliament Acts of Parliament, sometimes referred to as primary legislation, are texts of law passed by the Legislature, legislative body of a jurisdiction (often a parliament or council). In most countries with a parliamentary system of government, acts of ...

in the

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. The Act stated that under-18s were to receive less

unemployment benefits Unemployment benefits, also called unemployment insurance, unemployment payment, unemployment compensation, or simply unemployment, are payments made by authorized bodies to unemployment, unemployed people. In the United States, benefits are fun ...

than adults along with women who were to receive less than men.{{cite web, url = http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/so/youthchron/SocialSecurity/pre45socsecurity.htm, url-status = dead, archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20030114191133/http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/so/youthchron/SocialSecurity/pre45socsecurity.htm, archive-date = 2003-01-14, title = Youth Policies in the UK

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Insurance legislation United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1921 1921 in economics Unemployment in the United Kingdom Unemployment benefits