Payments to Unemployed War Veterans
CABINET APPROVES NEW SCHEME Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Last Night. Cabinet has approved of the recommendation of the Minister of Labour (Hon. H. T. Armstrong) for a settlement of recent difficulties over the payment of allowances to unemployed war veterans. The Minister said to-day that, briefly, 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 that the Labour Department out of the Unemployment Fund should make up the difference between pension and the allowable earnings of war veterans under the Pensions Act. 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 arrangement will operate as from the end of this month. In the moantimo the department will carry on as it has done in the past. {Several members of the executive of the Returned Soldiers* Association informed me that such recommendation would bo accepted as being reasonable.**
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 34, 10 February 1937, Page 5
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