Welfare State
Sir,—The following quotations are from the Christmas number of “Town.” Wife of prosperous businessmen on family benefit:—“By no means is it necessary but my husband pays taxes and I am out to get back all I can. He calls it my ‘divl.’ If we go out he makes me buy the drinks with it.” An age beneficiary. “The secret of our being able to get along is that in our younger days we were frugal and bought a joint annuity.” In Wellington’s model suburb, Porirua, public consumption of liquor by mum and dad has been observed as phenomenal. What happens to our frugal age beneficiaries? Until the wife reaches 65 he makes a present to the Social Security Department (and to drinking mums and dads) of the fruits of his frugality in excess of £4 a week. Now that we can count on computers, cannot we revise the Act?— Yours; etc., A. B. CEDARIAN. January 22, 1967.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31275, 23 January 1967, Page 12
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159Welfare State Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31275, 23 January 1967, Page 12
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