FAMILY ALLOWANCES
FIRST PAY-OUT IN BRITAIN LONDON, Aug. 6. “This is an historic day,” said the British . Minister of National Insurance (Mr. J. Griffiths), greeting the first mothers to call at the Stepney office to collect their first pay-out of family allowances. The British scheme gives a* mother 5/- a week for every child under 14, except the first-born. The scheme will cost £57,000,000 in the first year and then £60,000,000 a year. The mother . is legal trustee of* the payments, although the father is permitted to collect.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 7 August 1946, Page 8
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