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Dáil Éireann debate -
Wednesday, 8 Feb 1939

Vol. 74 No. 1

Written Answers. - Unemployment Insurance Fund.

asked the Minister for Industry and Commerce if he will state what were (a) the receipts and (b) the disbursements under each heading of the Unemployment Insurance Fund in the last insurance year and the total receipts and total payments.

As the accounts are kept on a monthly basis, figures are not available for the insurance year, which commences on the first Monday in October each year. I am circulating with the official report a statement showing the receipts into and payments out of the Unemployment Fund for the year from 1st October, 1937, to 30th September, 1938.

RECEIPTS INTO AND PAYMENTS OUT OF THE UNEMPLOYMENT FUND DURING THE YEAR ENDED 30TH SEPTEMBER, 1938.

Receipts

£

s.

d

Contributions by Employers and Workpeople

957,171

12

6

Contributions out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas

273,396

9

6

Amounts recovered in respect of:—

(1) Benefit paid in error

949

11

2

(2) Refunds by Officials in respect of overpayments of Unemployment Benefit

8

16

9

TOTAL RECEIPTS

1,231,526

9

11

Payments

£

s.

d.

Unemployment Benefit paid to Workpeople

649,300

13

1

Unemployment Benefit paid to Workpeople in error

1,275

6

1

Repayments to Associations in lieu of Unemployment Benefit

10,976

19

7

Refunds to Employers and Workpeople of contributions paid in error

946

9

1

Grants for Travelling Expenses

6

7

11

Appropriations in Aid of Unemployment Insurance and Unemployment Assistance Vote in respect of Cost of Administration

184,518

11

1

Contribution to Unemployment Insurance and Unemployment Assistance Vote under Section 25 of the Unemployment Assistance Act, 1933, as amended by Section 5 of the Unemployment Assistance (Amendment) Act, 1938

283,904

0

0

TOTAL PAYMENTS

1,130,928

6

10

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