The benefits prescribed in the Act of 1920, which were afterwards temporarily varied, are 15_s._ a week for men and 12_s._ a week for women, with half-rate for boys and girls. Benefit was provided to be payable after the first three days of unemployment, afterwards permanently increased to six by the Unemployment Insurance (No. 2) Act, 1921, which constitute a “waiting period,” and for a maximum of twenty-six weeks in any “insurance year.” It was fifteen weeks in the Act of 1920, but this was increased to twenty-six by the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1921. The amount of benefit must not in any event exceed the proportion of one week’s benefit for every six contributions paid, i.e. one day of benefit for each contribution. This limit is in certain cases temporarily suspended by the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1921. The conditions for the receipt of benefit are that a prescribed number of contributions have been paid, viz. a minimum of twelve under the Act of 1920—in certain cases temporarily relaxed by the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1921; that applications for benefit have been made in the prescribed manner; that the contributor proves that since his application he has been continuously unemployed, capable of, and available for, work, but unable to obtain suitable employment, and that he has not exhausted his right to benefit. The workman is disqualified[17] from benefit if his unemployment is caused by a stoppage of work due to a trade dispute at his place of employment, or if he has lost his employment through misconduct or by voluntary resignation without just cause. Nor is benefit payable while the workman is an inmate of a prison or a workhouse or any other institution supported out of public funds, nor whilst he is resident outside the United Kingdom. Should he be in receipt of sickness or disablement benefit under the Health Insurance Acts or of an old age pension, he can claim no benefit.