"REFUNDS WHILE YOU WAIT"

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 290, 7 December 1943, Page 2

"REFUNDS WHILE YOU WAIT"

May I add my contribution as a further effort to expose the utter farce of the so-called Social Security? We were promised "free" medical attention and it is not given to us. IWe got only a portion of the tee for consulting a medical officer and then have to wait months to get the portion back. In my case I claimed a refund of the little portion due to me, and after two weeks the medical officer of health discovered that Schedule A had not been completed and the form was returned to me. This was completed and returned to the Department the same day, and-it is now almost three weeks, and I still wait for my paltry part refund. It's time the public protested against this delay. The B.M.A. told the Government what they thought of the scheme and refused to have anything to do with it. and I think New Zealanders should, as a body, refuse this levy unless absolute free attention as promised is given. I had 25 years in the Colonial Service, and we would not hold our jobs if we held up claims as this Government does. Social Insecurity would be a more consistent name with a slogan: ''Refunds while you wait." H. A. BENTLEY.