EX-SOLDIERS' PENSIONS
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Arrangements Approved by Cabinet
(By Telegraph-
WELLINGTON, Last Nighk Gabinet has approved of the recommendation of the Minister of Labour (Hon. H. T. Armstrong) for a settlement o? Tecent difficulties over the payment of alldwances to unemployed war veterans. The Minister said to-day that, briefiy, his recommendation to' the Government was that the Pensions Department shOuld pay the full amount of; the pension: to which the war veterans were entitled under the Act and thajt' the Labour Department out of the Un-' employment Fund should make up the' difference between pension and thej allowable earnings of war veteransj under the Pensions Aet. This Cabinet has approved. "The decision means that the war; ' veteran will get just the same amount' he has got in the past," continued Mr. Armstrong, ' ' but in effect the Pensions Department will pay considerably more , and the Labour Department will pay considerably less. The new arrange-i ment will operate as from the end of." this montH. In the meantime the department will carry on as it has done in the past. Beveral members of the executive of the Returned Soldiers ' Association informed me that such recommendation would be accepted as beings Teasonable.,,
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 22, 10 February 1937, Page 6
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