SOLDIERS' DEPENDANTS
INCREASES BEGINS TO-MOIIIIOW. Tho increased pensions and allowances sanctioned by Parliament for soldiers dependants last session como into operation to-morrow, nnd will involve an increased cost to tho State of over a million and a quarter. Children aro allowed ten shillings weekly. The allowance to wives of soldiers has been increased from Is. per day to 21a. per week. Widowed mothers dependent upon a soldier will receive 10s. 6d. The allowance will not be jeopardised by the receipt of an income \ip to ten shillings weekly from other sources. Widowed fathers, not formerly provided for, are entitled to tho same allowance as the widowed mother. The pensions scale has also been increased to • the extent of an all-round increase of five shillings weekly in death and total disablement pensions of all ranks, whilo tho differential treatment of privates and noncommissioned officers under the old scale is abandoned in favour of a general rate of £2 weekly for total disablement, with £1 weekly for the wife, the later grant representing, in tho caso of privates, an increase of 7s. 6d. weekly.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 82, 31 December 1917, Page 7
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182SOLDIERS' DEPENDANTS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 82, 31 December 1917, Page 7
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