SOCIAL SECURITY ACT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 July 1940, Page 3

SOCIAL SECURITY ACT

FAMILY BENEFITS. EXTENSION NOW IN OPERATION. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. The provision made by Parliament last week for the extension of family benefits under the Social Security Act to cover the second and each subsequent child, instead of the third ana each subsequent child as previously, has been brought into operation by the Government. The provision was made to minimise any hardship imposed on the family man in view of the additional National Security charge of Is in the pound. Tlie Minister of Social Security. Mr Parry, said last night that the new provision would increase each of the 11.000 family benefits on the roll by the additional amount provided by the Amendment Act. namely 4s weekly or 17s 4d monthly. Payment, would be available in the ordinary course on next pay-day. tomorrow, without application by the existing beneficiaries. The only exceptions made were those cases (some 850) where related unemployment and ipickncss and emergency benefits were payable, in which eases no increase was payable as the maximum combined benefit remained unchanged. New applicants for family benefit would, of course, require to make application to the nearest pnsi office of the Social Security Department.