WAR VETERANS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 34, 10 February 1937, Page 8

WAR VETERANS

PAYMENT OF ALLOWANCES [ Per Preus Association. 1 WELLINGTON, Feb. 9. Cabinet has approved the recommendation of the Minister of Labour, Hon. H. T. Armstrong, for a settlement of the recent difficulties over the payment of allowances to unemployed war veterans. The Minister said to-day that briefly, his recommendation to the Government was that the Pensions Department should pay the full amount of the pension to which the war veterans were entitled under the Act and that the Labour Department, out of the Unemployment Fund, should make up the difference between the pension and the allowable earnings of the war veteran under the Pensions Act. This, Cabinet had approved. “The decision means that a war veteran will get just the same amount that he has got in the past,” continued Mr. Armstrong, "but in effect the Pensions Department will pay considerably more and the Labour Department will pay considerably less. The new arrangement will operate as from the end of this month. In tne meantime, the department will carry on as it has done in the past. Several members of the executive of the Returned Soldiers' Association have informed me that such a recommendation would be accepted as being reasonable.”