SECURITY ACT BENEFITS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19886, 14 March 1939, Page 16

SECURITY ACT BENEFITS

APPLICATION FORMS ISSUE ON WEDNESDAY (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The Pensions Department advises that forms of application for monetary benefits under Part II of the Social Security Act, 1938, that is for age persons, widows, orphans, families, invalids, miners, sickness and unemployment will be available on and after March 15 at the office of any registrar of pensions or district employment officer of the Labour Department in the larger centres and at the local post office in the smaller towns throughout the Dominion. The Act comes into operation as from April 1 and application forms, when completed, should bo forwarded to the nearest social security office. Those already in receipt of pensions or allowances are not required to apply for similar monetary benefits under the Social Security Act as the change-over will be made without persona] application. For example, an old-age pensioners receiving a pension of 22s 6d a week will be granted from April 1 the age ben<-fit of 30s a week without application, and a person holding a current pension certificate will be able to produce it as sufficient authority to receive the payment of the corresponding benefit of the Social Security Department at the next pay day.

It is anticipated that a large number of applications will be received by the department during the initial stages, but no time will be lost in preparing each case for the social security commission's decision and any, accumulation of applications will be reduced to normal dimensions as expeditiously as possible.