27As regards its purpose, that allowance is aimed at enabling the workers concerned to provide for themselves following an involuntary loss of employment when they still have the capacity for work. In order to distinguish between different categories of social security benefits, ‘the risk covered’ by each benefit must also be taken into consideration. Thus an unemployment benefit covers the risk associated with the loss of revenue suffered by a worker following the loss of his employment although he is still able to work. A benefit granted if that risk materialises, namely loss of employment, and which is no longer payable if that situation ceases to exist as a result of the claimant's engaging in paid employment must be regarded as constituting an unemployment benefit.
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