PENSIONS FOR SOLDIERS.
REVISION NEEDED.
(By Telegraph. —Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Friday. Giving evidence before the Pensions Commission to-day, Dr A. Izard, a member of the War Pensions Board, said many anomalies existed. A man with a leg amputated above the knee was classified 80 per cent, 32s pension; if the whole leg was lost, 85 per cent, 345. Two shillings was nothing like adequate for the difference. The whole schedule shduld he 'revised. An attendant's allowance of £1 for a tot-ally-disabled man was insufficient. Disabilities should be 'assessed by a medical board, not by the War Pensions Board, on which two lay members were able to out-vote one medical opinion upon medical questions. It was debatable whether a correct method of assessment had been followed in the past. Some men receiving full pensions as totaHy incapacitated were earning money by their previous occupations, and that was not taken into account.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXI, Issue 1301, 7 October 1922, Page 5
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150PENSIONS FOR SOLDIERS. Waipa Post, Volume XXI, Issue 1301, 7 October 1922, Page 5
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