5. c. 29) was an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom, reaching statute on 28 June 1934.

[1] It also separated benefits earned by paying National Insurance and those purely based on need.

This was due to a reduction in the number of those unemployed in the UK, which was reduced partially due to the creation of the Iron and Steel Federation in 1934 and the introduction of the National Grid in 1933.

In order to pass the Unemployment Act, Sir Henry Betterton (Minister of Labour at the time), based his bill on a set of principles.

Betterton divided the bill into three separate parts, each of which had a distinct set of principles.