SOCIAL SECURITY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 February 1939, Page 4

SOCIAL SECURITY

CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS. LEAFLETS TO BE ISSUED TO PUBLIC. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Various points of interest and importance arising out of the Social Security regulations gazetted on Thursday were explained by the Minister of Social Security, Mr Nash, in a statement last evening. These regulations deal only with contributions to the Social Security Fund. Mr Nash said they had been framed to take advantage as far as possible of the administrative machinery established in terms of the Employment Promotion Act and with which contributors would be familiar. An important innovation concerning the registration fee is that provision has been made for the control by employers of payments of the fee by their employees. In order that various classes of individuals can compare their obligations under the Employment Promotion Act with those imposed on them by the Social Security Act, the Minister supplied a summary showing their relative positions. Leaflets are to be issued to householders later giving fuller information as to the obligations of the public. Mr Nash said there should be no difficulty in putting the Social Security Act into effect on April 1. It should be possible to issue shortly further regulations dealing with other aspects of the Act.