WAR PENSIONS
OVER j>300.000 ANNUALLY ALREADY. The cost to the Dominion of war pensions is. steadily mounting up. Last week 111 new pensions were granted Tβpresentiiis an annual value of .£6366. Up to March 31 last the total annual value of pensions Granted was in round figures, J570.000. From April 1 to dato 18 soldiers pensions have been granted, of an annual value of J:799, avera»in" £U a year. Thirty -two widows (with 45 children) have been granted pensions ol an annual value of ,£27Bs—avewe m a- year; and 111 other dependants ro-o- been sr ant ™ pensions agsregatins &Mi a year—average. JE3IO. The ternporary soldiers' pensions number 453 • anmml value, average, £75. At the end oi last financial year the average soldiers pension was .£53; the average is now .£75 a-year, as against.a maximum pension of ,B5 a year. Fifty-five wives ot soldiers will, s+ children have been Rrniited pensions since April 1. These pensions aguresate .63162, "or an avera»e or ,£iß per pension. In nil 679 pensions n«u allowances Wteen granted since the s <,{ vaAttS. <tf S&2SS); average £Si a, TjcaT. Tncliidins tte SXi%m gnwled last year »)» »fit liability of the State to date is TongWy, JX)H,QOO a veav '
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3092, 24 May 1917, Page 6
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200WAR PENSIONS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3092, 24 May 1917, Page 6
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