WAR VETERANS.
PAYMENT OF PENSION. XEW ARRAXGFMEXT APPROVED. (By Telesraph.—Pre** Association.) WFLLIXGTOX. this day. Cabinet has approved the recommendation of the Minister of Labour, the Hon. H. T. Armstrong, for the settlement of recent difficulties over the payment of allowances to unemployed war veterans. The Minister said to-day that briefly his Recommendation to the Government was that the Pensions Department should pay the full amount of the pension to which war veterans were entitled under the Act. and that the Labour Department, out of tho I'nemidoyment Fund, should make up the difference between the pension and the allowable earnings of war veterans under the Pensions Act. This Cabinet had approved. "The decision means tliat the war veteran will get just the same amount that he has got in the past.'" added Mr. Armstrong, "but. in effect, the Pensions Department will pay considerably more and the Labour Department will pay considerably less. The new arrangement will operate as from the end of this month. In the meantime the Department will carry on as it has done in the past. Several members of the executive of the Returned Soldiers' Association have informed me that such a recommendation would be accepted ,as being reasonable."'
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 34, 10 February 1937, Page 5
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