PENSIONS PAYABLE AT HOME.
A suggestion by the member for Napier that the pensions of decripit old ■age pensioners should be raid at their homes by postal officers, is not approved by the Minister in charge of the Pensions Department, who, however, states that a pensioner who is unable through infirmity and other special reasons to fall at the nearest post office without inconvenience, may have an agent appointed to collect his pension, under section 47 of the Pensions Act. During the year ended March 31 dast_, over two thousand six hundred agents were appointed under this section in. outlying districts. Provision is made for payment of pension instalments by registered letter, the pensioner or Iris agent being required in the first instance to call at the nearest post office find smth. tlk? usual form of receipt. In addition special arrangements are made for payment in special cases. la one such case a letter carrier acts (as the pensioner's agent, and signs for the money at the post office each montli.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20128, 16 July 1914, Page 5
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171PENSIONS PAYABLE AT HOME. Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20128, 16 July 1914, Page 5
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