EXISTING PENSIONS LEGISLATION

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21908, 8 October 1936, Page 12

EXISTING PENSIONS LEGISLATION

VARIOUS PROVISIONS ALTERED

[From Our Parliamentary Reporter.!

WELLINGTON. October 7

Various provisions of the existing pensions legislation are either extended or modified by the Finance Bill No. 2, whicn was introduced in the House of Representatives to-day.

It is provided that in the grant of a pension to a mother, who has the care of her children, but who is not entitled to the widow’s pension, the necessity for the father of the children to be dead is to be modified. The pension may be granted if the father is detained in a mental hospital, or if he has failed to make adequate provision for maintenance of children. No pension is to be granted for children more than 15 years of age. In computing the amount of a miner’s pension or an invalidity pension payable to a married man. no allowance will be made for a wife for any period during which she is in_ receipt of a pension. The payment of pensions to women'whose husbands are detained in mental hospitals is extended to ctyer the wives of men who are detained as voluntary boarders in mental institutions.

In the computation of an invalidity pension payable to a married woman, it is provided that the annual amount will be diminished by £1 for every complete £1 of the total annual income of the applicant and her husband, in excess of £lO4, and also by £1 for every complete £lO of the net capital value of their accumulated property, computed as for an application for an old age pension.