SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS
MR NASH REPLIES TO MR HOLLAND (New Zealand Press Association; AUCKLAND, April 11. “All the affirmations by the Prime Minister (Mr Holland) cannot do away with the fact that the aged and other beneficiaries were short-paid £2 18s lid in February last,” said the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Nash) on Saturday. “What the Prime Minister has to prove is, first, that he kept his promise to pay the beneficiaries a Christmas bonus of £10; and, second, that the increased benefits were paid as promised by the Government at the rate of 10s a week from September 15, 1953,” said Mr Nash. “If these promises had been kept, the sum paid out to each beneficiary in February last would have been £24 8s lid, and not £2l 10s. It was a mean act to deduct the sum of £2 18s lid from the amount due as promised,” Mr Nash concluded.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27322, 12 April 1954, Page 3
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