AMERICAN PROVISION
Allowances For Soldiers' Wives And Children SERVICEMEN'S INSURANCE Rec. noon. WASHINGTON, May 26. The Senate Military Committee has approved the Soldiers' Allotment and Allowance Bill authorising selective service boards to classify men with wives and children into categories to determine the order in which they are called up. The bill provides for a reduction of 22 dollars a month from a soldier's pay, to which the Government adds 28 dollars, thus providing a wife with 50 dollars for living expenses. In addition the Government would pay 12 dollar a month toward the support of one child and 10 dollars for each additional child. The committee has also approved a new provision making war risk insurance compulsory. Ten thousand dollars are provided for every man
In ihe armed services, for which the service man will pay 35 cents a month for every thousand dollars for which he is insured.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 123, 27 May 1942, Page 8
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150AMERICAN PROVISION Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 123, 27 May 1942, Page 8
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