| Short Title: | Unemployment Insurance Act 1924 |
| Type: | Act |
| Parliament: | Parliament of the United Kingdom |
| Long Title: | An Act to repeal proviso (2) to section two of the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1923. |
| Year: | 1924 |
| Statute Book Chapter: | 14 & 15 Geo. 5. c. 1 |
| Royal Assent: | 21 February 1924 |
| Commencement: | 21 February 1924 |
| Repealing Legislation: | Unemployment Insurance (No. 2) Act 1924, Third Schedule |
| Status: | Repealed |
The Unemployment Insurance Act 1924 was passed when the British Labour Party was in power in 1924. The Act arose from a dispute over the means testing of benefits. The Labour Cabinet disagreed on whether means testing should be abolished or whether such a move would prove too costly. The compromise was that the test for receiving benefits would be whether a person was "genuinely seeking work". The 1924 Act extended to "genuinely seeking work" test to all benefited claims.[1]