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Unemployment Assistance The Government is to be congratulated on speeding

up, at the last moment, the publication of the new Unemployment Assistance Regulations. With even greater speed the Labour party decided that the regulations must be opposed. Yet they will end the chaotic conditions which have existed under the " stand- still " arrangements ; and, in such respects as the determination of allowances for rent, they are more generous than the regulations which caused such violent protest last year. Indeed, owing to the increases in allowances to 200,000 applicants, the cost of unemploy- ment assistance under the new rules will be £750,00"J more than under the " standstill."

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