STATE INSURANCE
AUSTRALIAN ROYAL - COMMISSION. PROVISION FOB DESTITUTE PERSONS. (Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) MELBOURNE, March 3. (Received March 3, at 9 p.m.) The third progress report of the Royal Commission on National Insurance states that the annual expenditure on poor relief by private and charitable organisations and Government institutions (including old-age and invalid pensions) in Australia totals £15,000,000. The report recommends that more effective provision could be made by a comprehensive scheme of national insurance than by amending the Invalid and Oldage Pensions Act to provide for the payment of a destitute allowance, and that pending the institution of some such scheme the Commission of Pensions should be granted certain discretionary powers in regard to rejected claims where the claimants are destitute.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20039, 4 March 1927, Page 9
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121STATE INSURANCE Otago Daily Times, Issue 20039, 4 March 1927, Page 9
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