JAMES G. BRYANT, as Director of Employment, et al. , Petitioners, v. INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT COMMISSION, Respondent. If an individual is unemployed because of lack of work, benefits are provided under the Unemployment Insurance Act. The next session of the Legislature adopted article 10 of the Unemployment Insurance Act (3 Deering's Gen. Laws, Act 8780d; Stats. Pending such final determination the Department of Employment might, as it did here, pay the applicant unemployment disability benefits. That puts the employee back where he was prior to 1945 with the temporary deducted from the permanent disability compensation allowed him.

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