WAR PENSIONS
THE BILL TO DATE. Starting -with a modest £13,910 in the financial year 1915-16, New Zealand s War Pensions Bill passed the half-million mark last year, and reached a total or I .£"-12,585 during the first eight months ot this financial year. New Zealand has already paid out in pensions as a result of the'great war a sum 'or .£1,452,329, and the 25,813 pensions granted involve an annual liability of J81.ni.451.. Successive improvements in the penI sion scale, and the move serious cases 1 which had to be dealt with as the campaign progressed, resulted in the average pension rising from £i& in 1915-16, .£53 the following year, to W per annum | to-day. • ~. , ~ The whole financial position as at.Movemlier 30 is summarised as follow— Annual Liability. Amount. No. £ At March 31, 1918 14,497 904,383 Plus new pensions, 191819 to November 30... 8,690 589,229 Totals 23,193 1,493,612 Less deaths and cancellations, 1918-19 to November 30 2.352 141,000 i • ■- ■ Actual annual cost at present date , 20,841 1.302,613
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 73, 20 December 1918, Page 4
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167WAR PENSIONS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 73, 20 December 1918, Page 4
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