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Description: | Concept: recruiting, children, family, military personnel, women / womens work Description: whole: the title is positioned across the top in blue, with the main text placed below, in red and in blue. All are set against a plain white background and held within a broad red border. image: text only. text: NEW SCALE OF SEPARATION ALLOWANCES FOR SOLDIERS' WIVES AND CHILDREN FROM MARCH 1st Separation Allowances paid by the Government to the wives and children of soldiers have been increased, so that the total weekly payment to the family, if the soldier makes the usual allotment from his pay, is as follows: Corporal or Private Sergeant Wife - - - per week 12s 6d - 15s Wife and 1 Child - per week 17s 6d - 20s Wife and 2 Children, per week 21s - 23s 6d Wife and 3 Children, per week 23s - 25s 6d and so on with an addition of 2s for each additional child Each Motherless Child - 5s From February 1st, 1915, Separation Allowance is payable for all children up to the age of 16 years ALLOWANCES FOR OTHER DEPENDENTS If an unmarried soldier has supported a dependent or dependents for a reasonable period, and wishes to continue the support he gave, the Government will help during the war, by making a grant of Separation Allowance, provided he will contribute part of his pay. The maximum rate of allowance to a dependent will, as a rule, be the same as for a wife; but in cases where the soldier supported more than one dependent the maximum allowance will be at a wife's rate for one dependent and at children's rate for the others, as shown in the following examples: If a soldier supported his mother only, the weekly minimum allowance will be 12s 6d If a soldier supported his father and mother, the weekly minimum allowance will be 17s 6d If a soldier supported his mother and 3 brothers or sisters, the weekly minimum allowance will be 23s FURTHER PARTICULARS CAN BE OBTAINED AT ANY POST OFFICE OR RECRUITING OFFICE ENLIST TO-DAY AND YOUR DEPENDENTS WILL BE WELL PROVIDED FOR Published by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, London Poster No. 89 Printed by David Allen And Sons Ltd., Harrow, London, etc. | Subjects: | poster | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Unknown Printer: David Allen and Sons Ltd, Harrow, Middlesex Publisher/Sponsor: Parliamentary Recruiting Committee | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=2688... | Go to resource |
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