CHRISTMAS BONUS
UNEMPLOYED PERSONS £2 FOR MARRIED MEN (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The Minister of Finance, the Hon. W. .Nash, announced yesterday that the Government had decided to pay a Christmas bonus to persons in receipt of unemployment benefit from the social security funds.
The bonus is 10s for persons under 20 without dependants, £1 for single persons aged 20 and over, and £2 for married beneficiaries.
The bonus will be paid to all persons who received unemployment benefit in the week ending December 16, 1939, and who have received benefit for the last four weeks in the six weeks ending on that date.
Payment will be made on January 3, 4 or 5. The unemployment benefit certificate (pink card) must be produced at the time of payment.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20128, 23 December 1939, Page 9
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130CHRISTMAS BONUS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20128, 23 December 1939, Page 9
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