PENSIONS BILL
WHAT BRITAIN SAYS ißritidi Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Talegnph— Copyright. , RUGBY, December 1!).' Major Tryon (Minister of Pensions), in a memorandum, states that £860,000,000 will have been expended on pensions by March next. _ Unemployment among 'disabled ex-service men, excluding those totally incapacitated, is responsible for less than 5 per cent, of the total number of men pensioners. The war pensions expenditure of last year, which ended on March 31 last, amounted to about £60,000,000, and for the current year would total £57,000,000. A comparison of the aggregate expenditure on war pensions of France, Germany, and the United Kingdom for ten years since November, J IMS, shows:—France, £150,000,000; Germany, £350.000,000; tho United Kingdom. £787,000,000. As to tho cost of administration, the fetal sum so absorbed in ten years was not more than 4,2 per cent, of the total. Pensioners number at present about 970,000, making, together with dependents, wives, and families, about 1,500,000 persons.
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Evening Star, Issue 20055, 21 December 1928, Page 8
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155PENSIONS BILL Evening Star, Issue 20055, 21 December 1928, Page 8
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