NATIONAL INSURANCE.
AN AUSTRALIAN REPORT.
DESTITUTE ALLOWANCES.
(Rereivod Thursday, 7 p.m.),
MELBOURNE, March 3.
Tlie third progress report of the Royal Commission on National Insurance states that the annual expenditure .on poor relief by private charitable organisations and Government institutions, including old age and invalid pensions, in Australia, totals fifteen millions sterling. The report states that more effective provision could be made by a comprehensive scheme of National Insurance and by amending the Invalid and Old Ago Pensions Acfs to provide for the payment of a destitute allowance, and that pending the institution of some such scheme, the Commissioner of Pensions should’ bo granted certain discretionary powers in regard to rejected claims where claimants are destitute.—(P.A.).
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Wairarapa Age, 4 March 1927, Page 5
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116NATIONAL INSURANCE. Wairarapa Age, 4 March 1927, Page 5
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