FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
RECENT ACTIVITIES OF THE BOAED. • The man in the street majr wonder what sort of work the Financial Assistance Board has been finding to do since ( khaki began' to disappear, so rapidly from the faco of New Zealand. Somo idea of the nature of the business that the board has recently had to attend to is given by the following extracts from a report made by the secretary (Mr. S. J. Wills) for the final quarter of 191!):"Amongst tho now applications a few cases of genuine hardship have come to light: for instance, where a soldier's affairs have not been properly administered during his absence, and the soldier has been called upon on his return to meet accumulated liabilities. Special expenses in such cases have clearly established a claim for financial assistance, and the board has been enabled to grant the necessary assistance under tho further regulations gazetted, June 10, 11)10. The majority of the applications, howover, are by young unmarried men without dependants, on account of small recurring liabilities, chiefly Jife insurance, which conid have been met. and in fact were met in many cases, from the soldier's allotment. "It is noteworthy that many returned soldiers undergoing out-patient hospital treatment are very persistent in their claims for continuance of financial -assistance, and in this connection it should lie nointed out that in the ease of an out-nat'"nt private, with a wife and one child, the military income amounts to 13s. (id. nor day. or J8247 7s. fid. per annum. When advice is received that a soldier is undergoing ouf-paliont treatment, tbe case is reviewed on its merits. . '. Under Hip liberal assistance and wide scope of the reinitiation scheme, financial assistance under the Soldiers' Vinancial Assistance Regulations is seldom necessary or justified after discharge. "The work- of flic board in the matter of'fresh applications :s nractically concluded, and, although only a few meetings will now bo necessary, the board will continue to meet as required, nnd will make special arrangements to deal with new cases as .soon as the applicants have furnished the necessary amount of information. Arrangements have ken completed for the, closing operations of the board tn be carried out in the promises of tho War Expenses Department."
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 94, 15 January 1920, Page 5
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372FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 94, 15 January 1920, Page 5
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