A SOCIAL SECURITY PROBLEM.
(The Editor.)
Sir,—As one whose mother’s agehelpless condition is being admirably handled by the Home for such cases in Greytown, might I ask where the benefit comes in of her receiving the difference between 22s 6,d per week already enjoyed (!) and the 30s per week so much boasted of under the Labour Government's latest ‘so-called Social Security scheme. They, in some return for attention given her at Greytown, impound all monies coming my mother's way, excepting 5s per week to provide her with a few extra comforts of one and another kind. This scarcely adequate sum to meet any beyond- bare necessity needs though now augmented to above differential extent (hitherto by me) has still extra pro rata taxation to be met. leaving my aged mother’s State Endowment. always a few shillings less than the past or at present Social Security. Schemes allowance, in ordinary public mind, would seem to judicate. I am. etc. "TO HIM THAT HATH ” Masterton, April 3, 1939.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 April 1939, Page 4
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166A SOCIAL SECURITY PROBLEM. Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 April 1939, Page 4
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