FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
THE AMENDED REGULATIONS. A regulation amending the scheme of financial assistance for soldiers, as already announced, was issued last night. It provides that the aggregate amount of tho assistanco granted to any recruit shall not exceed £156 in any year. Assistance may be granted either by way of periodical payments or in lump sums. The assistance to be afforded to any member of the Expeditionary Force under these regulations slwll bo granted as from such dale as the Minister approves, not being more than three months earlier than tho date of the application to the Minister for financial assistance, and not being earlier than the date at which the recruit first becomes entitled to receive continuous. _ pay as a member of the Expeditionary Force. The obligations for which assistance, may be granted aro as follow <a) Rent. (b) Interest payable in respect of loans or mortgages or in respect of agreements'for the purchase of a dwellinghouse or business premises. (e) Interest and instalments payable in respect of agreements for tho purchase of furniture or other chattels. (d) Rates and taxes. (e) Insurance premiums. (f) Other necessary or reasonabls expenses, not being ordinary maintenance expenses or expenses incurred in tho purchase of property.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 113, 5 February 1918, Page 4
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204FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 113, 5 February 1918, Page 4
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