PENSION PAYMENTS
POSITION OP WIDOWED MOTHERS. Mr. J. A. Young (Waikato) asked theMinister of Defence whether the Government proposed to make provision this; session for a more adequate pension allowance to the aged or widowed mother of a deceased soldier, particularly where the mother was solely or almost entirely dependent npon the soldier son for kef support. _ ■ "Provision is already made by Section 7 of the War Pensions Act, 191G, for a widowed mother, whose son was her sole support, to receive a pension equivalent, to that payable to the wife of a soldier,' replied Sir James Allen. "Special provision is being made by the proposed amending Bill for tho partly dependent widowed mother." - Replying to another question, Sir James Allen said that no discrimination would be made between Second Division men and those who were now in the New Zealand Expeditionary Porce. Prom a definite date increases in allowances and pensions would ho general.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 2, 27 September 1917, Page 4
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155PENSION PAYMENTS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 2, 27 September 1917, Page 4
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