WAR PENSIONS
HUGE COST TO BRITAIN COMPARISON WITH FRENCH AND GERMAN (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, December 19. Major Tryon, Minister of Pensions, in a memorandum, states that £860,000,000 will have been expended on pensions by March next. Unemployment among disabled ex-service men, excluding those totally incapacitated, is less than 5 per cent, of the total number of men pensioners. The war pensions expenditure of last year, ended March 31 last, amounted to about £60,000,000, and for the current year would total £57,000,000.
A comparison of the aggregate expenditure on war pensions of France, Germany, and the United Kingdom for the ten years since November, 1918, shows: France, £450.000,000; Germany, £350,000,000; United Kingdom, £787,000,000. As to the cost of the administration, the total sum so absorbed in ten. years was not more than £36,000,000, or 4.2 per cent. The pensioners number at present about 970,000, making, together with dependents, ; ives, and families, about 1,500,000 persons.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 75, 21 December 1928, Page 8
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154WAR PENSIONS Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 75, 21 December 1928, Page 8
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