SOCIAL SECURITY
HIGHER COST TO STATE
£3,491,079 IN 3 MONTHS Returns of Social Security benefits for four months, as published in the Abstract of Statistics, show steady increases as follows: —•
There was paid out during the five months ended August. 103? the following principal sums:-- £ Age .. .. 2.597,013 Widows .. • ■ 310.442 Invalidity . . 378,101 Unemployment . 205,523 Total 8.4!) 1,07!)
The payment for unemployment :? for 21 weeks ended August 26, 1938. Other payments arc war pension:;. £052,998, excluding £55.000 paid in sterling through the High Commissioner in nondon. Payments in Now Zealand also include benefit to Maori and South African War Veterans, totalling £1351. family, orphans’, hospital and maternity allowances. A sum of £75,003 is set down as for war veterans’ allowances.
Emer19,39 n:eut Sickness gency May . 5505 1201 400 June ■ TO JO 1519 470 July . 8009 2443 033 August 8000 2030 730
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20073, 20 October 1939, Page 5
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139SOCIAL SECURITY Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20073, 20 October 1939, Page 5
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