PENSIONS PAYOUT

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 144, 14 March 1939, Page 8

PENSIONS PAYOUT

Change-Over To Social Security Benefits WHEN AND WHERE TO APPLY Forms of application for monetary benefits under Part 2 of the Social Security Act, 1938—that is, in respect of age, widows, orphans, family, invalids, miners and sickness and unemployment —will ’be available on -and after tomorrow at the office of any registrar of pensions or the district employment officer of the Labour Department in the larger e.ntres, and at the local post office in smaller towns throughout the Dominion. 'J’he Act will come into oiieralion as from April 1, and -application forms when completed should be forwarded to the nearest Social Security office. Those already in receipt of pensions or allowances are not required to apply for similar monetary benefits under the Social Security xlct, as the changeover will -be made without personal application. For example, an old-age pensioner receiving a pension of 22/6 a week will ’be granted from April 1 the age benefit of 30/- a week without application, and -a person holding a current pension certificate will be able to produce it as sufficient authority. to receive payment of the corresponding benefit of the (Social Security Department at next pay day.

It is expected that a large number of applications will be received -by the department during the initial stages, but no time will be lost in preparing each eir.se for the -Social -Security Commission’s decision. Any accumulation of applications will be reduced to normal dimensions as expeditiously as possible. ARRANGEMENTS FOR FIRST PAYMENT By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, March 13. Officers of the Pensions Department in Auckland said today that all pensions provisions under the -Social Security Act will come into operation as from April 1. Arrangements had been made for the first payment of the increased age benefits aud other pensions on April 23. The due date for payment does not fall till April 30, since the department normally follows the practice of paying at the end of the month all pensions falling due at the beginning of the month. However, the usual system will be followed of paying a week in advance of due date.