SECOND DIVISION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 43, Issue 13302, 21 July 1917, Page 5

SECOND DIVISION.

ALLOWANCES AND PENSIONS,

THB SCALE ASKED FOX

The Second Division League Conference in Wellington decided to ask Parliament to fix the following scale of tfeparation allowances and pensions for the dependents of married soldiers: — PAY OF SOLDIERS. ."Five shillings per day as for First Division. ■Separation allowance to wife or sole dependent, 6s per day. 'The payment to children was recommended at Is 6d per day for each rhild, and to a motherless child 2s (id per day. ;Extra, allowance to wife (chronic iuva■•n__los u per week extra. Extra allowance to child (chronic invalid) 5s per week extra.

PENSIONS. To widow with children, £3 3s. To widow without children or sole dependent (i.e., 50 per cent reduction on allotment during period of hus- \ band's service), £2 32s Od. / To each child, 10s 6d per week. ' To motherless child, 17s (3d per week. V V Extra allowance to wife (chronic inva- \ lid), 10s per week. Extra allowance to child (chronic invalid), 5s per week. DISABLED SOLDIERS. Basic Principles of Pension Scheme. (J) To place incapacitated men and their dependents in approximately their pre-war position. (2) Inducing incapacitated men to improve their positions without penalising them. (A) Care of incapacitated soldiers and dependents. Minimum Flat Rate of Pensions. £ s d 100 prr cent incapacitated ..213 so ;, , ~ iis ° 70 , „ „ ..IS 10 A--00 ~ „ '„ ..149 so ;; :: „ .. 1 1 n •40 ' " '~ •• ° w G 30 ", " „ <-' 12 -li "0 ' ' ~ ..OS 3 The percentage to which a man is in- /•' capacitated to be fixed by a board. "i Where injuries are not. scheduled, pen--1l sion to be at nearest approximate rate. jjji Children's Allowance. —A flat rate of * 10s 6d per child; to males to age 17; unmarried females, 20. Where a disabled man requires an attendant an allowance of 20s weekly i-hall be made as a pension for this purpose. The following are examples of the working of the Pension by Right and •Schedule Scheme as it is proposed by the conference it should be applied to ' !New Zealand: — In the case of a totally disabled man, v single man is treated as a married man. There is first a flat rate and also an alternative rate. Under the flat rate: — £ 8 fi The totally disabled or under schedule the 100 per cent man gets 2 13 For each child 0 10 6 £2 11 9 Minimum man and one child, £2 lis .Oil. Two children, £3 2 S 6d. Three children, £3 13s. A. Four children, £4 3s 6d. X" Alternative rate enabling him to IP el aim pre-war earnings or proportion -thereof:-—lf desired in preference, or flat rate under which no allowance is made for children, he may claim up to £3 15s without deductions on proved ■ pre-war earnings. Men getting pre-war earnings of £3 15s will receive £3 15s. Men getting £4 get £3 15s, plus half the difference between £3 15s and £4 (2s 6d)—£3 17s 6d. Men getting £5 will got £3 15s, plus half the difference between £3 15s and £5 (12s 6d)—£4 7s 6d.

Men getting £6 mil get £3 15s, plus £1 12s—£5 7s 6d.

Men getting £7 10s will get £3 15s, plus £1 17a 6d—£s 12s 6d. This is the maximum allowance.