SICK BENEFITS
GOVERNMENT & FRIENDLY SOCIETIES. TENTATIVE AGREEMENT REACHED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Arrangements for administering sick benefits to Friendly Society members under Section 50 of the Social Security Act have been tentatively agreed to aihe result of a conference between the Hon W. Nash (Minister of Finance ) and representatives of the Dominion Council of the Friendly Societies. The decisions are subject to amendment as experience may dictate, and are open to review by a general meeting of th< Dominion Council, states a circular issued to the Friendly Societies .throughout New Zealand. The circular states that pending the introduction of the part of the act dealing with medical hospital and related benefits, the de partment will accept a medical certificate or signed duplicate of the form used by friendly societies in payment of lodge sick benefit. For the immediate present applicants for social security temporary sick benefit will be limited to members entitled to lodge sickness benefits.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 April 1939, Page 8
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158SICK BENEFITS Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 April 1939, Page 8
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