The Unemployment Assistance Board was a body created in Britain by the Unemployment Act 1934[1] 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".
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