BRITISH PENSIONS.
Big Burden Placed On Country's Resources. HEALTH INSURANCE. (British Official Wireless.) EUGBY, May 6. Figures compiled by the Ministry of Health show that 1,500,000 people in England and Wales are in receipt of pensions under the Contributory Pensions Act. These include recipients of old age pensions, widows' pensions, additional allowances for children as part of widows' pensions and orphans' pensions. More than £37,000,000 has been paid from the pensions fund. Figures are also given showing the growth of the national health insurance scheme in the last five years. At the end of last year tie accumulated funds of the scheme amounted to £113,000,000, an increase of £9,000,000. In that period the number of insured pensions increased from L £1,000,000 to nearly £16,000,000. The' total expenditure on benefits amounted last year to £29,000,000, as compared with £23,000,000 in 1924. The maternity and child welfare services also have been steadily extended in recent years. More than 2500 centres are now in existence.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 106, 7 May 1929, Page 7
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