HUGE COST
OF WAR PENSIONS MILLION POUNDS A WEEK. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, December 15, Striking figures regarding British war pension payments were given by Major Tryon, pensions minister. Ho said the beneficiaries numbered about one and a quarter the
end ot the present year Britain’s expenditure on war pension'?;' AV'iil'liaW reached the figure o.i one thousalid and sixty million pounds, and it is be ing continued at the rate of nearly one millions pounds weekly. These figures are considerably larger than the amounts paid by any other nation, ally or enemy, which took part in the war. The cost of administration was less than 4d in the pound. Over 90 per cent, of those disabled were now secure in the position of their title to a pension, and despite the subsequent reduction in the cost of living and severe economies practised in practically all other branches of national expenditure, the Avar pension "rates had remained uncut since they Avere fixed in 1919.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 December 1932, Page 5
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163HUGE COST Hokitika Guardian, 16 December 1932, Page 5
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