Social Security Rates
Sir. —I should like to know what the Minister of Social Security is going to do to help old age and war pensioners. The workers are receiving a rise, and quite entitled to it, too. I see members of Parliament are after another rise (what for?). Broken promises and sacrificing the pensioners and workers to a starvation existence. Tax! tax! tax! Even a fool knows you cannot tax people into prosperity, but to poverty. Both parties, National and Labour, have nothing to offer but a starvation wage and to make martyrs of the pensioners. All Labour members should take a trip overseas as the writing is on the wall for them. There is only one remedy; next election vote Social Credit, which will do as Major Douglas intended to do: feed the ones who produce food. It is a crime to grow old under the present system.—Yours, etc., WAR PENSIONER. September 28, 1959. [The Minister of Social Security (Miss Howard) replied that she has already stated that the Government is reviewing the rates of Social Security benefits and that she has no comment to make on the remainder of the letter.]
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29017, 5 October 1959, Page 14
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