Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Payment of unemployment allowance.-(1) If an applicant for employment under the Scheme is not provided such employment within fifteen days of receipt of his application seeking employment or from the date on which the employment has been sought in the case of an advance application, whichever is later, he shall be entitled to a daily tmemployment allowance in accordance with this section. (2) Subject to such terms and conditions of eligibility as may be prescribed by the State Government and subject to the provisions of this Act and the Schemes and the economic capacity of the State Government, the tmemployment allowance payable under sub-section (1) shall be paid to the applicants of a household subject to the entitlement of the household at such rate as may be specified by the State Government, by notification, in consultation with the State Council: Provided that no such rate shall be less than one-fourth of the wage rate for the first thirty days during the financial year and not less than one-half of the wage rate for the remaining period of the financial year. (3) The liability of the State Government to pay unemployment allowance to a household during any financial year shall cease as soon as- (a) the applicant is directed by the Gram Panchayat or the Programme Officer to report for work either \by himself or depute at least one adult member of his household; or . (b) the period for which employment is sought comes to an end and no member of the household of the applicant had turned up for employment; or (c) the adult members of the household of the applicant have received in total at least one hundred days of work within the financial year; or (d) the household of the applicant has earned as much from the wages and tmemployment allowance taken together which is equal to the wages for one hundre<! days of work during the financial year. (4) The unemployment allowance payable to the household of an applicant jointly shall be sanctioned and disbursed by the Programme Officer or such local authority (including the Panchayats at the district, intermediate or village level) as the State Government may, by notification, authorise in this behalf. (5) Every payment of unemployment allowance under sub-section (1) shall be made or offered not later than fifteen days from the date on which it became due for payment. (6) The State Government may prescribe· the procedure for payment of unemployment allowance uhder this Act. COMMENTS This section lays down the terms and conditions for payment of unemployment allowance. If an applicant for employment under the Scheme is not provided employment Sec. 1 OJ The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 13 as per the provisions of the Act within fifteen days of receipt of his application seeking employment or from the date on which the employment has been sought in the case of an advance application, whichever is later, he shall be entitled to a daily unemployment allowance in accordance with this section. The unemployment allowance payable shall be paid to the applicants of a household subject to the entitlement of the household provided that no such rate shall be less than one-fourth of the wage rate for the first thirty days during the relevant financial year and not less than one-half of the wage rate for the remaining period of the financial year. [Notes on Clauses] · 8. Non-disbursement of unemployment allowance in certain circumstances.-(1) If the Programme Officer is not in a position to disburse the unemployment allowance in time or at all for any reason beyond his control, he shall report the matter to the District Programme Coordinator and announce such reasons in a notice to be displayed on his noti•e board and the notice board of the Gram Panchayat and such other conspicuous places as he may deem necessary. (2) Every case of non-payment . or delayed payment of unemployment allowance shall be reported in the annual report submitted by the District Programme Coordinator to the State Government alongwith the reasons for such non-payment or delayed payment. (3) The State Government shall take all measures to make the payment of unemployment allowance reported under sub-section (1) to the concerned ~10usehold as expeditiously as possible.