1.   All the women who had paid full National Insurance contributions had sufficient contributions to be eligible for unemployment benefit.

2.   As well as earnings from part-time work, other income can affect your entitlement to unemployment benefit.

3.   Family credit is also available on unemployment benefit, although this is counted as income.

4.   How long have you been drawing unemployment benefit?

5.   In fact, about a third of the women were both the sole earners and were ineligible for unemployment benefit.

6.   Only a small minority had claimed unemployment benefit before and so they found the complex procedures bewildering and confusing.

7.   The harsher conditions attaching to the receipt of unemployment benefit affect all claimants, but the consequences for women are particularly unfortunate.

8.   The National Insurance Act gave the newly set up exchanges the role of administering the system of unemployment benefit.