OLD AGE PENSIONS
repout ok department. (Special lo (lie Times). WELUN’GTOX, July 2S. The seventeenth report of tlie Old Age Pensions Department, which was presented to Parliament yesterday, shows that at March SI last there were RJvSr.S old age pensions in force ;cs against 15,050 in 1914. 17SS widows’ pensions (1040 in 191-1) and D'isS military pensions (1240 in 1914), malting a total of 22.52S pensions as against 20,5.’i0 in 1914. liie total cost of the pensions hist year was £500.912. as against £.121.725 in 1914. The increase in pensions last year over 1914 was Hi 99 (value £29,188), ’and in tint last two years 4RIS pensions (value £104,711). The sum expended n military jtensions last year was £49,905. In last year’s amendment to the Pensions Act an allowance of £0 per annum t\.,t made to a widow for each child under 14 years of age (wiiere previously the maximum was £2O per annum for four of more children). This lias increased the value of widows' pensions by £llOO, the increase at the end of the year amounting to £ISOO.
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Southland Times, Issue 17486, 29 July 1915, Page 5
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180OLD AGE PENSIONS Southland Times, Issue 17486, 29 July 1915, Page 5
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