No benefits for fines
NO beneficiary wall be granted an additional benefit to pay fines, according to the director of the Department of Social Welfare in Christchurch (Mr C. L. Waters). Mr Waters in a letter to ‘The Press," commented on a solicitor’s assertion in the Supreme Court at Christchurch that it was his client’s practice to “go to the Social Welfare Department and get a
supplementary benefit to pay fines.” Gavin Edgar William Kinsman, aged 49, a sickness beneficiary, had appealed against a $3OO fine imposed in the Magistrate’s Court at Christchurch on a charge of organising illegal gambling. The appeal was dismissed by Mr Justice Roper, but his Honour allowed Kinsman an additional six months in which to pay the fine.
Mr Waters said in his letter that only in “very special circumstances" was a “lump sum” advance payment of an additional benefit made. The payment of fines was not one of these circumstances. However, a person might apply for an advance for some other stated purpose and , then use the money to pay a fine, he said.
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Press, 5 December 1978, Page 12
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