A BIG BILL
POOR RELIEF IN AUSTRALIA NATIONAL INSURANCE ADVOCATED MELBOURNE, March. 3. The third progress report of the Royal Commission on National Insurance states that the annual expenditure on poor relief by private charitable organisations and Government institutions, including old age and invalid pensions in Australia, totals £15,000,000. The report recommends that more effective provision could be made by a comprehensive scheme of national insurance than by amending Invalid and Old Age Pensions Acts to provide for payment of the destitute allowance, and that ponding the institution of some such scheme the Commissioner of Pensions should be granted discretionary powers in regard to rejected claims, where the claimants are destitute.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19783, 5 March 1927, Page 8
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111A BIG BILL Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19783, 5 March 1927, Page 8
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