Unemployment Assistance Act, 1933

Calculation of the means of persons.

13.—(1) In the calculation of the means of a person for the purpose of this Act the following things and no others shall be deemed to constitute the means of such person, that is to say:—

(a) the yearly value ascertained in the prescribed manner of all property belonging to such person (not being property personally used or enjoyed by him) which is invested or is otherwise put to profitable use or is capable of being but is not invested or put to profitable use;

(b) all income which such person may reasonably expect to receive during the succeeding year in cash, including the actual or estimated amount of any income which such person may reasonably expect to receive during such succeeding year as head of the household, whether as contributions to the expenses of the household or otherwise, but excluding—

(i) any income or money coming within any other paragraph of this sub-section,

(ii) all moneys earned by such person in respect of current personal employment under a contract of service,

(iii) any moneys received by way of benefit under the National Health Insurance Acts, 1911 to 1933,

(iv) any moneys received by way of unemployment benefit under the Unemployment Insurance Acts, 1920 to 1930,

(v) any moneys received by way of unemployment assistance under this Act,

(vi) any moneys received by way of home assistance;

(c) the yearly value ascertained in the prescribed manner of any advantage accruing to such person from the use of property (other than furniture and personal effects) which is personally used or enjoyed by him;

(d) all income and the yearly value ascertained in the prescribed manner of all property of which such person has directly or indirectly deprived himself in order to qualify himself for the receipt of unemployment assistance;

(e) the yearly value of any benefit or privilege enjoyed by such person.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (b) of the immediately preceding sub-section, the income of a person shall, in the absence of other means for ascertaining it, be taken to be the income actually received during the year immediately preceding the date of calculation.