FAMILY ALLOWANCE
Sir,—We hear so much about 10s weekly and sugar-bag days. I was in it. It was not bad—los and board; 10s then would go further than to-day, with the high cost of living with £2. Compare this with the starvation treatment of -old people With a family on the so-called social security benefits, who are deprived of extra family allowances because they are on social security. It is all right for the moneyed man and high wages man to run down the 10s days, when this wonderful Government gives them extra family allowance to help them to pay their income tax. Oh, what a wonderful Labour Government with its larders full and enormous incomes for so-called best brains in the world. Let them step out and let some returned soldier step in who has fought for rights that they do not get as promised.—Yours, etc., ONE THAT KNOWS. May 3, 1946.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24868, 7 May 1946, Page 2
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