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famil y allow a nces proposed (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON. March 18. The Government will introduce, alter Easter, a Workmen’s Compensation Bill. Therein, for the first time in Britain, the principle of family allowances will he admitted. •The Bill provides for a weekly sujv "element of five shillings for a wife when her husband is totally disabled, and throe shillings for each child under 15 years.
The scales are proportionately reduced in proportion to incapacity.
Under the Bill, minimum pensions for the marents of unmarried men killed in the war are to be increased to. five shillings a week from two shillings. The present maximum pensions of ten shillings weekly for one parent, and of ,12/6 for two parcels, is increasable by five shillings weekly in exceptional circumstances. The claimants’ capacity for self-support is not to he taken, into consideration.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 March 1940, Page 5
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