WAR PENSIONS.
THE COST TO- BRITAIN
(British Official Wireless.l RUGBY, Dec. 19. Major Tryon, Minister of Pensions, in a memorandum states £860,009,090 will have been expended on pensions by March next. Unemployment among disabled exservicemen, excluding those totally incapacitated, is less than 5 per cent of the total number of men pensioners. The war pensions expenditure of the year ended March 31 last amounted to about £60,000,000, and for the .current year would total £57,000,000. A comparison of the aggregate expenditure of the war pensions ol France, Germany and the United Kingdom for the ten years since November, 1918, shows France spent £450,000,000, Germany £350,000,000 and the United Kingdom £787,000,000. The sum absorbed by the administration costs in the ten years was not more than £36,000,000, or 4.2 per cent. The pensioners number at present about 970,000, making, together with dependents, wives and families, about 1,500,000 persons.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 21 December 1928, Page 5
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