Social Security Payments
Sir.—ln my previous letter I suggested to “Disillusioned Nationalist” that if there were injustices connected with the emergency benefits of the social security fund, the matter be referred to the Ombudsman, but your correspondent makes no reference to this in his latest peroation. He merely goes on damning the Government. He says that 1 have not proved the Governments’s statistics wrong regarding rising living costs. If he rereads my previous letter he will see that 1 agree with the Statistician's figures that the cost of living has been steadily rising since 1935. but, I repeat, the word
“soar” as again used by “Disillusioned Nationalist,” is a gross exaggeration. He has studiously avoided denying my repeated accusation that he never has been a National Party supporter but is ■ a hard-core Labourite of long standing, and his nom-de-plume, “Disillusioned Nationalist,” is humbug.—Yours, etc.. ANTI-HUMBUG-August 12, 1965.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30830, 16 August 1965, Page 12
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