PAYMENT OF PENSIONS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23006, 8 October 1936, Page 6

PAYMENT OF PENSIONS

VARIATIONS ANNOUNCED PROVISION FOR DESTITUTE WIVES (From Our Parliamentary Reporter) WELLINGTON, Oct. 7. Various provisions of the existing pensions legislation are either extended or modified by the Finance Bill No. 2, which was introduced in the House of Representatives today. It is provided that in the grant of a pension to a mother who has the care of children but is not entitled to a widow's pension the necessity for the father of the children to be to be modified. A pension may be granted if the father is detained in a mental hospital or if he has failed to make adequate provision for the maintenance of the children. No pension is to be granted in respect of children over 15 years of age. The payment of pensions to women whose husbands are detained in mental hospitals is extended to cover the wives of men who are detained as voluntary boarders in mental institutions.

In computing the amount of a miner's pension or an invalidity pension payable to a matrried man no allowance h to be made in respect of his wife for any period during which she is in receipt of a pension. ■** In the computation of invalidity pensions payable to married women it is provided that the annual amount is to \be diminished by £ 1 for every complete £1 of total annual income of th applicant and her husband in excess of £lO4 and also by £1 for every complete £lO of net capital value of their accumulated property computed as in the case of application fc the old age pension.