SUPERANNUATION PLAN

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22376, 13 April 1938, Page 21 (Supplement)

SUPERANNUATION PLAN

VIEWS OF RETURNED

SOLDIERS retention of EXISTING AC*

SUGGESTED (tuia 4UOCU.TIOV WELLINGTON. April ISEvidence on bdutt of the NewEehland. Returned Soldiers* given before the National Hwlw and Superannuation Committee today. Referring to the W« Acts, a memorandum says asaocwtion desires that the «£ administration should be m its entirety, and not in a**y wbmite the Mtoing as a reasonable schedule ofjw veterans’ allowances m the cmUOC circumstances: Single vdenft W • week; married veteran, ™ttout children, 455; married with one riuM. 55k two children. We; three chfldiw. four children, IBs; the maximum to he 85s a week, but a veteran to be allowed earnings or other income » the extent of £52 a year. . Where a veteran, requires a wagekeeper to care for his dependent cnadrenhe should be granted the amount which his wile, if living, would have received, , .... ... Under present day cooditiqos the association saw no possible iostifiration for further withholding the restoration of cuts in economic war pensions. rrematare Ageing Referring to national aqpesamumtion, the memorandum says: “We have drawn attention previously latte>»» mature ageing of returned soWiera. ana certain of our associations have strongly urged the view that returned soldiers should qualify at BA .she section of the community eonmm» plated by the superannuation achamfc however, is regarded as one mm has suffered less in this fCWfT* 52 the section contemplated by the Veterans Act, and far that rea— it is considered that a qualification for returned niillfii mould be 95 years. „ . "The association feels that a. war pension for physical disability HWiM be exempted up to 15s a week tor the purposes of supersnnuaiion, The pen* sion referred to is an attempt tocompensate for specific war disability, fa other words to make him a whale mew again. A 15s limit Is suggested becansr. beyond that war pension (be returned soldier can apply for an economic pension.” ______________