WAR PENSIONS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21829, 16 December 1932, Page 9

WAR PENSIONS

PAYMENTS BY BRITAIN ' STRIKING FIGURES (British Official Wireless.) (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) RUGBY, December 14. (Received Dec. 15, at 5.5 p.m.) Striking figures in regard to British war pensions payments were given by Major Tryon (Pensions, Minister), who said that the beneficiaries totalled about 1,250,000, and by the end of the present year Britain’s expenditure on war pensions will have reached the figure of £1,000,000,000, and is being continued at the rate of nearly £1,000,000 a week. These figures a,re considerably larger than the amounts paid by any other nation, ally or enemy, which took part in the war. The cost of administration was less- than 4d in the pound. Over 90 per cent, of disabled men were now in the secure position of their title to a pension, and despite the subsequent reduction in the cost of living and the severe economies .practised in practically all other branches of national expenditure the war pension rates have remained uncut since they were fixed in 1919.