INCREASING COST OF SOCIAL SECURITY
MOST PAID IN AGE BENEFITS
Returns of Social Security benefits for four months, as published in the Abstract of Statistics, show steady increases as follows:—
There was paid out during the five months ended August, 1939, the following principal sums:— £>
The payment for unemployment is for 21 weeks ended August 26, 1939. Other - payments are war pensions, £652,998, excluding £55,000 paid in sterling through the High Commissioner in London. Payments in New Zealand also include benefits to Maori and South African war veterans, totalling £1351, family, orphans’, hospital and maternity allowances. A sum of £75,003 is set down as for war veterans’ allowances.
Emer1939 ment Sickness gency May 55C5 1201 400 June 703(5 1519 470 July 8009 2443 633 August SOGG 2630 730
Age Widows Invalidity Unemployment 2,597,013 310,442 378,101 205.523 3,491,079
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Southland Times, Issue 23953, 20 October 1939, Page 6
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