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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 383, 25 October 1946, Page 29

what does Labours Oal mean t0 you ? A HAPPY FAMILY LIFE_SAFEGUARDED FROM FINANCIAL WORRY MATERNITY Without HELP FOR THE HELPLESS OLD AGE HOLDS NO MONEY WORRIES Did you realise this? In the days TERRORS There was time ~pre-Social before Labour took over, if you New Zealand has had an old Security when the happy event were crippled or permanently dis- age pension since 1898 but often meant a financial crisis in the abled in any way you didn t re- when Labour came into office home. Doctor S fees and nursing ceive a penny in the way of pen it was only 17/6 a week at 65 years of age. You home bills brought a dark cloud sions or benefits ~you were can t be very independent on 17/6 a week: The of money worries. That's gone for good, thank dependent solely on the charity of relatives. How Labour Government has advanced the rate of heavens, and the 200,000 mothers who have re- different today when 12,000 invalids receive benefit to E2 per week at 60 years of age, leav- ceived free maternity benefits thank Labour for security of E2 per week! ing a man and his wife E4 a week free of tax; release from financial fear the right to own their own home with E500 in the bank and earn up to another E1 per week: AND Now A FAMILY REMOVING THE PENALTY FROM And over 100,000 thankful people receive this benefit today. This year 50,000 others receive INCOME SICKNESS E25 under the Universal Superannuation benefit In the past, too, an increase in the Similarly, accident or sickness, with its loss of scheme which continues to grow in value year family simply meant trying to wages; is today no longer something the bread- by year: stretch the family income that much winner can t afford. Sickness benefits remove further. Before Labour came to from illness SO much of the anxiety that makes YOUR FUTURE IS ASSURED UNDER power there certainly was a SO- it a burden. Last year over E500,000 paid out LABOUR called family allowance and if you to sufferers from illness helped to lighten that Labour hasn't finished yet: They plan to introduce didn t earn more than E3/5/0 weekly and if burden: So, too, doctor' $ and hospital bills, and special benefits, ambulance benefits, dental bene- you already had two children; then you received the cost of medicines which used to cripple SO fits for adolescent children, supplementing the 2 / per week for every succeeding child ~four many homes in the past no longer take toll of school dental service, and free artificial aids for shillings for four children. The Labour Govern- household finances. Labour has seen to that. For disabled people. ment quickly stepped that up and kept on step- Labour has always said that medical attention is ping it up until, this year, they were able to put the right of all not merely the prerogative of They plan to retain and where necessary into effect the universal family Income where those who could afford it. Now, with sickness liberalise and increase the benefits they, and every child far from being a burden means benefits, hospital benefits, medical benefits and they alone , have brought into being: In this and 10 / a week extra income to the mother. Pre pharmaceutical benefits, New Zealand' Social in every way they plan to go on 'keeping New viously, you know, widows never received a penny Security leads the world. S Zealand the world' s best place to live inl after their children turned fifteen- now 11,000 widows enjoy a benefit of E2 a week: Family security really works under Labour! REMEMBER ! THE NATIONALISTS FOUGHT TITTTE THE INTRODUCTION OF Vol SECURUTY S0 CaL SEC URITY FAMILY To 0Th AN D NAL FOR