SOCIAL SECURITY EXPENDITURE
£59,702,000 Spent In Last Year £1,644,000 ALSO PAID IN BONUSES (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON. August 11. Social security expenditure on cash benefits, special assistance, and health benefits for the year ended March 31, 1954, was £59,702,137. Of this, £34,378,357, or 58 per cent., was paid without a means test, and £25,323,780, or 42 per cent., was subject to means tests.
This expenditure does not include paymems of bonuses, which amounted last financial year to £1,644,925. These figures are given in the annual report of the Social Security Department, which was tabled in the House of Representatives today: The expenditure on cash benefits, including special assistance but excluding bonuses, increased from £46.668.183 for the year ended March 31, 1953, to £49,695,091 for the year ended March 31 la?*.
Of the expenditu? . on cash benefits, £23,771,311, or 48 per cent., was paid without a means test. The balance was subject to means tests. On March 31, there were 290,480 family benefits z in force, representing 671,523 children: There were 469 benefits for 10 or more children. The largest individual group of benefits was 96,217, for families each of one child.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27426, 12 August 1954, Page 12
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