WAR PENSIONS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 11 May 1918, Page 7

WAR PENSIONS.

ADDITIONAL REGULATIONS

Additional regulations dealing with war pensions are published in this Week's Gazette. They deal with the payment of supplementary pensions under1 the Pensions Act ot 1917, and the conditions under which medical treatment is to be given and accepted. Where a partially disabled member of the Forces in receipt of a pension is undergoing medical or curative treatment, and is thereby precluded from following any occupation, he may make application for an increased pension. Similarly a pensioner who is undergoing treatment while in employment, and who is compelled for the" purpose of treatment to absent himself from work, may apply for an allowance to cover loss of wages or out-of-pocket expenses. J

Where a disabled member of the Forces in receipt of a pension is, under authority from the Director-General of Medical Services, an inmate of a hos-pital-or other institution, the maximum amount that shall be paid to him by way of pension either directly or by arrangement with the authorities of the institution shall be 10s a week, and any balance shall be retained and paid to him on his discharge from the institution, or paid, at the discretion of the War Pensions Board,, to the wife or such other dependent as may be determined.

Where a disabled member of the Forces who has applied for and been granted a pension is, on the advice of a medical board, recommended to undergo or continue medical or curative treatment, and such advice is not accepted, find the Director-General of "Medical Services certifies that such treatment is available without expense to the member, and that the refusal to accept the same is unreasonable, the Commissioner of Pensions will call upon the pensioner to show cause why the treatment offered should not be accented. In the event of the refusal beinppersisted in the War Pensions Board shall determine what portion, if any, of the pension payable in respect of the disablement shall be withheld.