A DELAYED PENSION

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 8, 4 October 1919, Page 4

A DELAYED PENSION

Sir—Would you please publish tho following: I returned to' New Zealand last May and'l applied for a war pension on July 1 last, which I iiavo every right to claim. Somo time elapsed and'l.received no acknowledgment of my claim; they informed me. I would bo fixed up in a week's time. Six weeks have elapsed since,' and I have written consistently and. havo received no reply whatsoever, which, in my opinion, is not fair play nt all.' I think it high time the Pension Department'woke up—l am, etc, ■ ■' DISABLED DIGGER. [Tho above letter was referred to the Officer in Charge of AVar Pensions, who said that it would be impossible to inves-' tignto tho complaint unless our correspondent, gave, his name, and other particulars. Correspondence relating to pensions should be addressed'to tho'Commissioner of Tensions, Kduth'a' Buildings, Peutherston 'Street, Wellington. 'When a soldier applies lor a pension, the oflico at once sends for his medical papers. 1* thero is unavoidable delay in obtaining these, the soldier may for a fortnight hoar nothing about tho result of his application.. At tho end of a fortnight, however, if the. papers are still not to hand, : tho applicant's letter is acknowledged and tho position explained. Our correspondent is invited either to call at tho offico indicated above Or to send to it full particulars of his claim.]