DOMINION'S. PENSIONS.
— REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT. By Telegraph—Special Correspondent. WELLINGTON, July 28. The 17th report of tho Old Age Pensions Department, which was pne- : sented to Parliament to-day, shows I that nt March 31 last thorp wore j .‘.52 Old Ago pensions in force, as ( against 18,05(1 in 1911 : 1788 widows pensions (1540 in 1914); 1888 military pensions (1240 in 1914), making a ' total of 22,528 pensions as against i 20,830 in 1914. j The total cost of the pensions lastyear was £560,913, as against £521,725 in 1914. The increase in pensions last year over 1914 was 1698 (value £39,189) and 1 , in tho last two years, 4138 pensions (value £104,711). Tho sum expended in military pensions last year was £49,968. In last year’s amendment to the Pensions Act an allowance of £6 per annum was made to a widow for each child under 14 years of age (where previously tho maximum was £l3 per annum for four or more children). This has increased the. value of widows’ pensions by £l.lOO, tho increase at tho end of tho year amounting to £ISOO.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3994, 29 July 1915, Page 6
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182DOMINION'S. PENSIONS. Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3994, 29 July 1915, Page 6
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