Report of the Royal Commission on National Health Insurance

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Identifikator:: 1740277147

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-132094

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report of the Royal Commission on National Health Insurance

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stationery Office

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: XII, 394 S.

Digitisation:: 2020

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter XIII. Miscellaneous questions

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290) MAJORITY REPORT ability to obtain work subject to arrangements being made for the certification of unemployment by Employment Exchanges or its establishment otherwise in accordance with our recommen- dation in paragraph 655. 524. At the end of eight consecutive weeks of voluntary abstention from employment a woman should be transferred to a special class of insurance on the lines of the present arrangement and would become entitled to special benefits for a limited period. The special benefits which we recommend are :— (1) Sickness Benefit subject to the usual three days’ wait- ing period at the ordinary rate for a maximum period of six weeks during a fixed period of twelve months from the date of the transfer to the special class; this benefit should not pe liable to be linked up with previous sickness, thus entailing a liability of reduction to the rate of disablement benefit. (2) A single Maternity Benefit at the ordinary rate on the first confinement within two vears after the date of marriage. (3) Medical Benefit up to the 30th June or 31st December next following the anniversary of the date of transfer to the special class. (4) Any additional benefits provided under the Scheme of the Society of which the woman is a member, 525. We also recommend that the ordinary penalties for arrears should be applied, with the exception that Maternity Benefit should in. all cases be paid in full, irrespective of arrears. We recommend the retention of the present provision that a woman who returns to employment after having been transferred to the special class should be treated as a new entrant, and that pend- ing her qualification for benefits in respect of her new insurance she should continue to be entitled to the benefits of the special class so far as her title had not already been exhausted. HxEMPT PERSONS. 526. The statutory grounds on which a person employed within the meaning of the Act is entitled to claim exemption are— (1) the receipt of a pension or private income of at least £26 a year; (2) dependence for his livelihood on another person; (3) dependence on another occupation which is not insurable ; (4) the intermittent nature of his employment. 597. The number of exempt persons is small in relation to the insured population, amounting in England to approximately 33.600. of whom 24,700 have claimed on the ground of pension

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