LEGAL INQUIRY COLUMN

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 64, 16 March 1944, Page 3

LEGAL INQUIRY COLUMN

BENEFIT.—The transactions do not affect your benefit. The Department, however, is entitled to the information sought to enable it to check the accuracy of your return, and to compare it with the previous return to see that all assets are accounted for. ANXIOUS. —You may sell your house and buy a more suitable one or rent one without affecting your benefit unless as a result the moneys in the bank are increased beyond £ 1000. The value of any house you buy does not affect your benefit. BEDRIDDEN.—Your wife is entitled to an invalidity benefit of £84 10/ per year, less £1 for every £1 of the total Income of yourself and your wife in excess of £104 per year. If domestic or nursing assistance is required your wife's benefit will not be reduced unless your earnings be over £3 10/ per week. You could apply to the Hospital Board to have your wife admitted to the Infirmary. UNCERTAIN.—If the child is under 21 she may be adopted. The adoption, however, will not overcome the difficulty, but may merely make it less easily discovered. It is almost certain that full inquiry will, in any case, be made, and the onus of proof will probably be thrown on you. PUZZLED.—On the facts outlined you are under no obligation to pay the account. PAIR PLAY.—You cannot be ejected or required to give up possession of any part of the house without an order of the Court. The Court will weigh the question of hardship between you and your landlady, and It may decide that the giving up of one room is not a great hardship on you.