PENSIONS IN BRITAIN
NATIONAL INSURANCE SCHEME STEADY GROWTH RECORDED. (Brilisli Official Winders.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, May 1. Figures compiled by the Ministry of Health, show that I,.j(IU.(JOU people in .England and Wales arc in receipt of pensions under the Contributory Pensions Act. These include the recipients of old-age pensions, widows’ pensions, and additional allowances for claildren as part of the widows’ pensions and orphans’ pensions. Over £37,(XK1,(K)0 lias been paid from the Pensions Fund. Figures arc given showing the growth of the national heaUh insurance scheme during the. last live years. At the end of last year the accumulated funds of the scheme amounted to £113,000.000, an increase of £0.000.000. During that period the number of insured persons lias increased from 1,000,000 to nearly 16,000.000. The to! a I expenditure on benefits amounted last rear to £29.000.000, as compared with £113.000,000 in 1924. Tlie maternity and child welfare services have also been steadily extended in recent years, over 2, TOO centres now being in existence.
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Evening Star, Issue 20168, 7 May 1929, Page 6
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166PENSIONS IN BRITAIN Evening Star, Issue 20168, 7 May 1929, Page 6
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