A FRIEND IN NEED

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 24, 29 January 1923, Page 7

A FRIEND IN NEED

WHAT BRITAIN IS DOING

FOR SUFFERERS FROM THE

TIMES

BONAR LAW SETS LIMIT TO STATE

HELP.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.)

(AUSTRALIAN - NSW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.),

(Received 29th January, 9.30 a.m.)

LONDON, 28th January.

Mr. Bonar Law, in a letter replying to Mr. Sidney Webb's statement as to serious gaps between the various schemes in operation for the assistance of disabled ex-service men, and the sick and unemployed, declares that £151,000,000 will be expended on these schemes during the financial year, including £68,000,----000 in pensions; £27,000,000 on medical and sickness benefits; £44,000,000 in unemployment pay; £12,000,000 in Poor Law relief to abje-bodied unemployed. The Premier states that the British pension scheme is not only just .but gem erous. He is prepared to consider if there are any gaps which should be filled, bu^/ he joins isuse in Mr. Webb's hypothesis that' every person in need is entitled to look to the State for work or maintenance.