FOR EX-SERVICEMEN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 42, 20 February 1943, Page 5

FOR EX-SERVICEMEN

REHABILITATION RATES ANNOUNCED (P.A.) Wellington, Feb. 19. Rehabilitation allowances to provide for servicemen following their discharge from the forces and the cessation of service pay were announced to-night by the Prime Minister, the Hon. P. Fraser. The maximum weekly allowances, which will be payable for a period up to 13s weeks, are as follow: Single man, £3 10s; married man with wife only, £4 10s; married man with wife and one child. £4 16; married man with wife and two Children. £5 2s; married man with wife ana three children, £5 8s; married man with wife and four children, £5 14s; married man with wife and five children (maximum rate), £6.

The above allowances are free of National and Social Security taxes. The Prime Minister said these rehabilitation allowances would assist servicemen during the period following the stoppage of service pay and pending their placement In suitable employment or the granting of an appropriate war pension. The scheme, however, would in no way affect the soldier's present rights under war pensions legislation, and he could receive the rehabilitation allowance or a war pension, whichever grant was of the greater value over the period specified. Arrangements have been made for men whose service pay was to terminate on or after March 1 to be contacted by departmental officers. Servicemen whose service pay has already ceased could apply for the rehabilitation allowance if they had not already been absorbed into work or placed on a war pension.