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SUMMARY BENEFITS AND PENSIONS IN FORCE AND TOTAL PAYMENTS

COST OF ADMINISTRATION Excluding expenditure of £23,030 on capital items, administration costs for the year amounted to £775,828, including £94,665 in respect of the administration of war pensions and allowances. This represents 2-23 per cent, on total payments. SECTION 111. GENERAL WAR SERVICEMEN'S DEPENDANTS' ALLOWANCES Under section 11 of the Social Security Amendment Act, 1943, the Social Security Commission is able to increase age, widows', and invalids' benefits by an amount not exceeding £26 a year to parents of deceased members of the Forces and of the New Zealand Mercantile Marine. As at 31st March, 1947, there were 1,521 of these allowances in force. REHABILITATION ALLOWANCES The Social Security Commission, acting on behalf of the Rehabilitation Department, continued to make available, where necessary, to demobilized ex-servicemen and ex-servicewomen rehabilitation allowances following the cessation of Service pay to facilitate their reabsorption into civilian ocupations. As would be expected, the number of allowances granted during the past financial year has been considerably

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As at 31st March, 1946. As at 31st March, 1947. Class. Number in Annual Value. Total Payments, Number in Annual Value. Total Payments, Force. j 1945-46. Force. 1946-47. £ £ £ £ Universal superannuation .. 56,181 1,264,073 1,185,508 57,992 1,449,800 1,349,689 Age 110,060 11,589,318 9,817,615 115,287 12,450,996 11,881,119 Widows' 11,507 1,153,001 1,043,593 13,133 1,700,724 1,529,010 Orphans' 400 21,540 24,178 397 21,378 22,905 Family 42,637 3,935,395 2,611,759 230,021 12,746,760 12,680,778 Invalids' 12,164 1,411,024 1,183,537 12,466 1,333,862 1,328,485 Miners' 736 101,182 88,359 718 101,956 105,416 Maori War 1 104 101 1 104 104 Unemployment 205 31,661 35 24,332 Sickness 5,416 565,420 4,273 853,328 Emergency 2,094 121,959 1,845 134,288 War, 191^18 20,460 2,015j 934 1,997,390 20,081 i,968,042 2,036,825 War, 1939-45 26,926 1,923,166 1,662,227 30,028 2,173,632 2,080,952 War veterans' allowances 2,029 292,482 275,029 2,277 ■345,172 346,694 Boer War (Defence Act, 1909) 46 3,564 3,547 42 3,248 3,502 Mercantile Marine pensions .. 26 2,857 1,879 27 2,132 2,985 Emergency Reserve Corps .. 11 1,286 1,351 10 1,338 1,336 Sundry pensions and annuities 162 16,960 17,560 305 21,551 21,651 Civil Service Act, 1908 3 1,400 1,260 2 932 1,352 War and other pensions paid 3,121 260,045 301,548 3,156 299,112 414,354 on behalf of the Governments of Great Britain, • Australia, India, Canada, South Africa, and Crown Colonies Totals 294,185 J 23,993,331 20,935,481 492,096 34,620,739 34,819,105