CANADIAN SOLDIERS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24733, 9 October 1941, Page 5

CANADIAN SOLDIERS

POST-WAR REHABILITATION A wide extension of the Government's rehabilitation plans-for members of Canada's armed forces has been announced by the Minister of Pensions and National Health, Mr lan Mackenzie. The new plan provides:— (1) Young men whose academic or professional education was interrupted by service in the armed forces may secure assistance if needed to enable them to complete their education. ■ (2) Discharged men who can be assisted in obtaining employment by means of vocational training courses will be provided with subsistence while receiving the appropriate training. (3) Discharged men experiencing ill-health not directly attributable to military service, but hampering them in obtaining employment, may be given financial aid while undergoing remedial treatment already available. (4) Discharged men who return to or take up private enterprise, such as farming, may be assisted during the period in which they are awaiting returns. (5) All ex-servicemen who. through no fault of their own, experience delay in obtaining civil employment will receive unemployment protection at least equal to that available for civilians under the Unemployment Insurance Act. (6) After a discharged person has been in insurable employment for 15 weeks within any period of 12 months after discharge his military service subsequent to July 1. 1941, will be counted as insured employment under the Unemployment Insurance Act. In any period of unemployment prior to the completion of 15 weeks an exserviceman shall have the protection of out-of-work benefits under a postdischarge plan. In addition, the Government is considering an employment programme during the post-war transition period.