NEW SUPERANNUATION ACT
Sir—l agree with your correspondents that the Superannuation Amendmend Act is disappointing to those who have not completed 40 yeais service. Among them are the medically unfits who were unable to complete their service through no fault of their own __often through the nature of their work in the Public Service. A Government that claims to be humanitarian should make some provision for those who are the invalid section of superannuitants by compromising in the service they.have missed, at least to give them a net retiring allowance equal to the age benefit for a married couple of £4 a week. There is a precedent in the extra service credited to officers in tropical territories. It seems to me that to neglect the special claims of medically unfit superannuitants is tantamount to repudiation of a principle incorporated in social security.—l am, etc., . MEDICALLY UNFIT.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 149, 21 December 1945, Page 6
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