The Provisions of the New Social Security Schemes

North Canterbury Gazette, Volume 8, Issue 36, 1 September 1938, Page 5

The Provisions of the New Social Security Schemes

WIDOWS' BENEFITS Widow with 1 child under 16 £l/15/per week, 2 children £2/5/-, 3 children £2/15/-, 4 children £3/5/-, with 10/per week extra for each child up to a maximum of £4/10 per week. Income Qualification: No deduction from benefit is made unless other income is more than £l/10/- per week. Widows Without Children under 16 For fully qualified widows until they receive age benefit on reaching age of 60, £1 per week. Additional allowable income, £1 per week. Qualifications —(1) A widow, the duration of whose marriage (plus the time during which, while a widow, she cared for her children under age 16) was not less than 15 years; (2) Any widows, who loses her husband after she is 50 years of age will receive the benefit so long as her marriage has continued for 5 years; (3) Any other widow receives the benefit on reaching age 50 if her marriage occured not less than 15 years previously, and continued for 10 years and she was widowed after she reached 40 years of age. Special Qualifications —Women who have been deserted and have taken maintenance proceeding will if their husbands' whereabouts are unknown qualify as widows if they have dependent children under 16 years of age, or in any other case at the discretion of Commissioners. Women whose husbands are in a mental hospital, either under a reception order or as voluntary boarders, will qualify as widows if they have children under the age of 16 or in any other case at discretion of Commissioners. Residential Qualification —A widow, satisfying the marriage period qualification, who has no dependent children, qualifies if she and her husband were both resident ill New Zealand for not less than three years prior to the death of the husband. A widow who has dependent children, qualifies in respect of children who were born in New Zealand or were born while she was temporarily absent from New Zealand, or if both she and her husband were resident in New Zealand for not less than three years immediately preceeding the date of the husband's death or desertion or admisi&on to a mental hospital. Orphans' Benefits, 15/- per week. These benefits, are payable to every child under age 16. (1) If both its parents are dead; (2) If it was born in New Zealand or its last surviving parent resided in New Zealand for three years prior to his death; (3) So long as it is not being maintained in a State Institution. The rate of benefit will be fixed by the Commission in its discretion up to 15/- per week. Any property owned by the child and any special circumstances will be taken into account when fixing rate of benefit. Payments of orphans' benefit will be made to the guardian for the benefit of the child. Poor Bill '•'Bill has just made two trips from Auckland to Sydney, and was so sick he couldn't have a bath." "The dirty double-crosser."