UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.
LLOYD-GEORGE'S SCHEME
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received May 5, 11 a.m.) Mr Lloyd George has introduced tho Invalidity and Unemployment Bill. It provides for compulsory deductions from wages of from fourpenco per week for men, and threepence for women down to a penny. Employers will contribute threepence and the State two-pence. He explained that the voluntary schemo admits members at a payment of sevenpence weekly. Those over 45 would pay more weekly. All will receive medical attention. The Government will devote £1,500,000 to assist in building sanatoria for consumptives and a further million, yearly for the patients' maintenance. Sick allowance will bo 10s weekly for the first three months, 5s for next three months, and 5s weekly thereafter if permanently disabled; but the benefits to women will be slightly less. The surplus after fifteen years will permit of old age pensions being at 65, and increased pensions to tho. ■> working over 65.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10231, 6 May 1911, Page 7
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155UNEMPLOYMENT BILL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10231, 6 May 1911, Page 7
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