Benefits for women

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33959, 27 September 1975, Page 14

Benefits for women

Sir, — “One of Them”), (should know that National’s,; • superannuation scheme pro- I vides exactly what she is! asking for. Women and men; will get superannuation as; soon as they are 60. There j will be no means test and! [she or he can earn as much !as they like for as long as ’they like without any reduction in their pension. National has not forgotten women as some would have us believe. Superannuation for women at 60 follows National’s introduction of equal pay and emphasises National's liberal philosophy. —Yours, etc., J. M. T. GREENE. September 25, 1975. Sir, — Like many who, made a lifelong sacrifice all; -their working lives to pay • into husbands’ superannuation, “Widow” is ex-1 i periencing -difficulty on her; ! half-superannuation upon' which she pays tax. Having; (financed herself into a home: lof her own, she is forever I precluded from occupying a| council or pensioner’s cot-I tage, reserved almost ex- ■ clusively for those who have; made no provision what-, soever for their declining years. Neither does she receive assistance, as does the pensioner — halt telephone.reduced rates, bus, rail and air concessions and handouts. A superannuitant's widow is in a much worse position than a pensioner, whose cause is espoused ad t nauseum by many politi-i t cians. The outspoken radicals in women’s movements j ri could well direct their; r ; energies into areas to help; all women — not just those! >of child-bearing age. — J Yours, etc., ■ NOWEL. , September 25, 1975.