EPS
Any further communication should be
addressed to:-
THE SECRETARY,
and the following ference number should
be quoted:-
197/3532
Telephone Number: GROsvenor 6011
Your ref: 54384/5/51
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Sir,
NATIONAL
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NATIONAL ASSISTANCE BOARD,'
30, OLD BURLINGTON STREET,
LONDON, W.1
7th November, 1951.
Your recent letter to the Ministry of National Insurance enclosing a copy of a letter from the Secretary of the Hong Kong War Memorial Fund has been sent to this Department. The Ministry ask me to say that the benefits provided under the National Insurance Act, 1946 are as follows: Sickness, Unemployment, Maternity, and Widow's benefit; Guardian's Allowance, Retirement Pension, and Death Grant. The award of benefit is subject to the fulfilment of contribution conditions. Benefits are also provided under the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act, 1946 covering injury or death resulting from an accident or from a prescribed industrial disease suffered by a person while he is working for an employer: there are no contribution conditions for benefit.
These insurance benefits would not be affected by payments made to an insured person out of a Fund such as the Hong Kong War Memorial Fund.
linked with Grants under the National Assistance scheme are not subject FOL contribution conditions, and are payable to anyone living in the United Kingdom who is not in full-time work and has insufficient resources to meet his needs and those of his wife and any other de pendants according to the standard laid down in the National Assistance Regulations. In assessing how much assistance is payable, the Board must of course have regard to the resources which the applicant already has, including the full amount of any benefits under the National Insurance Acts, but the first 10s. 6d. a week of any income received by way of payments from charitable sources is disregarded. (Similar provision is made in the National Assistance Regulations in respect of
The Under-Secretary of State,
Colonial Office,
Church House,
Gt. Smith Street,
S. J.1.
/superannuation