Benefit payments
Sir, — “The Press” mentioned a businessman who also receives the superannuation and who has a child under five for whom he is allowed to claim family benefit and tax benefit and another beneficiary who has a young family for which he can claim allowance. My husband and I are also superannuitants with a 17-year-old daughter who is still at college. My husband receives an allowance of $3 a week for our daughter while I get the family benefit. We were allowed to claim the school activity fee for our daughter and nothing else because she is over 10. With her school stationery, clothes, sports trips, and exam fees it costs over $3 a week. It costs far more to clothe and feed a 17-year-old than a 10-year-old, so these two beneficiaries are not going to think it so good once their children reach the age of 11. — Yours, etc., MIDGE KING. August 24, 1978.
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Press, 29 August 1978, Page 16
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