Unemployment Assistance Board

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The Unemployment Assistance Board was a body created in Britain by the Unemployment Act 1934[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/inside_money/2173358.stm BBC NEWS | Programmes | Inside Money | The welfare state 1832 - 1945] due to the high levels of inter-war poverty in Britain. The Board kept a system of means-tested benefits and increased the number of people who could claim relief.

According to Tony Lynes "The board was a constitutional innovation: a department of government with its own budget, headed not by a minister but by the six members of the board, appointed by the Minister of Labour but for whose actions he could not be held responsible".{{cite web|title=Reinventing the dole: a history of the Unemployment Assistance Board 1934-1940|url=http://tonylynes.wordpress.com/reinventingthedole/|publisher=Tony Lynes|access-date=27 December 2013}}