INCREASE IN BENEFITS
TO HELP MEET WAR CONDITIONS.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day.
A number of increases in Social Security benefits and pensions is provided for in regulations which were gazetted last night. Under the regulations bonuses of 5 per cent are to be granted on age, widows’, orphans’, miners’, and Maori War benefits on the maximum pensions payable. Family benefits are to be increased by 50 per cent. For instance, a man. receiving a benefit of 4s a week for each child will receive a bonus of 2s on each child, and, in addition, the income basis for the family allowance is increased from £5 to £5 ss.
War veterans’ allowances are also to be increased by 5 per cent of the maximum rate and all economic pensions will be increased by 15 per cent. Commenting on the increases made in the benefits the Minister of Social Security, Mr Parry, said last night that the amounts granted were in the form of a bonus to help meet war conditions.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 May 1942, Page 2
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