FOR SOLDIERS' WIVES AND CHILDREN
SEPARATION AND DEATH
ALLOWANCES
(Rec. November 11, 7.20 p.m.)
London, November 10. Under the : Government's revised echeme the widow of a man in the lowest grade of the Army or Navy, with four children, receives a minimum of £1 weekly; a widow with three children, 17s. 6d. ;■ a widow with two children, 155.;. a widow-with one child, 12s. 6d.; and a childless widow, 7s. 6d. The allowances will be increased in necessitous cases. The widow's full separation allowance will be continued for twenty-six:weeks after the husband'a death. The Government will also assist unmarried men's dependents. Allowances for partial disablement, apart ffom'the National ilnsurance Benefit, range.from,3s. 6d;..t0 17s. 6d., and for-total disablement from 14s. for unmarried to"23s.' for married men with children. It is estimated that tho scheme roughly will cost £200,000,000 if the war lasts two years.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2305, 12 November 1914, Page 6
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142FOR SOLDIERS' WIVES AND CHILDREN Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2305, 12 November 1914, Page 6
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