PENSION INCREASES.

Otaki Mail, Volume XXIII, 13 December 1920, Page 3

PENSION INCREASES.

THE NEW SCALE, f 1 Parliament last session provided £50,000 for increases in soldiers' pensions. The Pensions Board has now decided upon the following scaj.o of increases: 1. To totally blind soldiers, l*os per week. 2. To soldiers who have lost two limbs, 10s per week. 3. To all soldiers in hospital receiving full pensions, 10s per week. •1. To all soldiers totally incapacitated in receipt of temporary full pensions, 10s per week (concurrent with present grant). 5. To soldiers in receipt of permanent pensions of full amount, an , amount according to the merits of each case. , j 0. To soldiers in receipt of full pensions with three or more children on pension, 5s per week for each c/jild in lieu of 10s per week as above. In cases under this head, 10s te, be paid to soldier and additional "amount to wife or other guardian of children. Following are examples of increases i in cases where the pensioner is mar- j ried:—A soldier and wife receiving a statutory pension of £3 and a supplementary pension of £1 will now receive an additional £1 under th"e 1920 Act, making £4 10s altogether; a soldier and wife with one child, receiving a .statutory pension of £3 10s and a supplementary pension of £l, will receive an additional 10s, nrakiug 25 in all; a soldier aud wife icnd two children will receive an additional 10s, making £5 15s in all; a so'idier and wife with four children wil] get an extra £l, bringing the totral up to £6; and a soldier and wife with five children will receive an extra £1 ss. bringing the total pension up to £f> 15s per week - ./ -^ssseh! WBBSB """ *S11" "' IJ " ™-'™ mm ™