BRITISH WAR PENSIONS
REDUCTION OF 106,000 IN 1929. The thirteenth annual report of the British Minister of Pensions shows that the number of persons receiving pensions or allowances from the Ministry on March 31, 1930, was approximately 1,370,000, comprising about 24,130 officers, 1,030 nurses, 469’,300 men, 140,000 widows, 264,200 children, and 471,340, parents and other dependents. The corresponding figure on March 31, 1929, was 1,"476,000. The decline was mainly due to the operation of natural causes, such as death (abqut 24,000 in the year), children attaining the pensionable age limit of 16 (about 73,000 in the year), the remarriage of widows (about 2000 in the year). The estimated expenditure for the year was £53,743,500. This was £2,989,200 less than that during the preceding year, and brought the total expenditure of the Ministry since its establishment to about £899,000,000.
With the reduction in the total volume of work, the staff of the Ministry fell, during the yeax* by 433 persons to 6,175, being approximately 25,800 fewer than when the work of the Ministry was at its maximum, in 1920. During the year 1,655 pensions were granted to widows /and motherless children of men who died as the result of their war disabilities.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 April 1931, Page 8
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