History A-Level
Unemployment insurance and assistance
What Unemployment insurance and assistance means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Unemployment insurance and assistance
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Provision reorganised by the Unemployment Act 1934 through the Unemployment Assistance Board, separating insurance-based benefit from means-tested assistance.
Topics that use Unemployment insurance and assistance
- Paper 3, Option 34.2: Poverty, public health and the state in Britain, c1780–1939 - 5 Depression and the dole: poverty in the inter-war years, 1920–39 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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- Regional depression and special areas
- Regional economic disparity
- Unemployment and poverty
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