SICKNESS BENEFITS
SOCIAL SECURITY ACT LONG QUESTION AIRE SOLEMN DECLARATION Applicants for sickness benefits under the Social Security Act are finding that, after they have completed the formidible questionaire given to them on application, there is little of their affairs, whether business or domestic, which is not touched on.
The questi'onaire is dividede into 27 questions, with sub-divisions, and each question must be answered. The document is classed as a solemn declaration and must be signed before a justice of the peace, a solicitor, or an officer of the Social Security Department. On presentation, it also must be accompanied by a medical certificate.
A point of interest is that if, ip the opinion of the doctor who supplies the certificate, the illness has been caused or aggravated by the failure of the applicant > to follow medical advice, the doctor is to make a special confidential report to the nearest social security office.
It has been stressed from time to time that there is no “means test” m connection with the provisions of the Social Security Act, but it is perhaps significant that the assets of any applicant for the benefit must be clearly shown on the questionaire. *
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19990, 15 July 1939, Page 4
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