UNEMPLOYMENT

Hokitika Guardian, 27 January 1931, Page 5

UNEMPLOYMENT

PAYMENT OF LEVY. LIST OF EXEMPTIONS. SOME MISUNDERSTANDINGS

(By Telegraph—Per Vress Association) -JiiiHiiu.x p;. Though a good deal ot pimlicity inis

been given to the details ol exemptions under the Unemployment -»ct, says the Hon. S. G. Synth, the Unemployment Board’s mail-bag daily contains piles of letters asking for information. The Act itself and the regulations subsequently made supply lull particulars, and the iorm necessary lor making application may be obtained at any Money-order Office. The following persons are exempt:--Any person who on the due date of a quarterly instalment and during the whole of the preceding month has been registered as unemployed, and lias received no income. Persons 65 years or over whose incomes for the three months preceding tho date of the instalment due did not exceed an average of £2 per week. .Men in receipt of war pensions in respect to total disablement on account of services rendered with his Majesty x Forces in the war of 1911-19. Those in receipt of pensions under the Pensions Act, 1926. Natives within the meaning of the Native Land Act. Every person who on the due date l of any instalment of the levy is an inmate of any public hospital or mental hospital, or any public or private charitable institution for the relief of the aged, needy, or infirm, or of persons requiring'medical •or surgical treatment. Inmates of any prison, reformatory, or Borstal institution. Students who on the.due date of an instalment are'enrolled at University ( colleges or other educational institutions, and are not in receipt of salary or" wages. -Every person who,'on the due crate of any quarterly instalment, and for the whole of the month on the first day of which such instalment was' due, was unable, through' physical of men-’ tal disability, regularly to follow any occupation or calling, and whose income during the preceding tliree months did not exceed qijf |veragej pf; £2 per week. Practically speaking, this list excludes all. those who are not receiving, a living wage, the aged poor and ailing, and those who are unemployable. In addition, persons who bv reason of sickness or poverty would suiTer un T due hardship by paying an instalment of the levy, and members of religious bodies, the rules of which forbid the possession of property other than personal clothing and similar effects, may apply for exemption by writing, to the . Unemployment Commissioner, Wellington.

It is therefore evident that, the Board is administering the Act with a serupnloua regard for the less fortunfijto individuals i'n .the community, though, of course, this; will result In the revenue from the. levy,-being considerably less than was: at first anticipated. J r