§ All ranks receive the same increases, officers' rates being expressed in pounds per annum.
| Existing weekly rat £ |
Proposed weekly rate £ |
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| Disablement benefits: | ||
| Disablement pension for private at 100 per cent rate | 48.30 | 53.60 |
| Age allowance with assessments of: | ||
| 40 to 50 per cent | 3.35 | 3.70 |
| Over 50 and not exceeding 70 per cent | 5.25 | 5.85 |
| Over 70 and not exceeding 90 per cent | 7.50 | 8.35 |
| Over 90 per cent | 10.50 | 11.70 |
| Unemployability allowances | ||
| Personal allowance | 31.40 | 34.35 |
| Increase for wife or other adult dependant | 17.75 | 19.70 |
| Increase for child | 7.70 | 7.95 |
| Invalidity allowances | ||
| Higher rate | 6.20 | 6.90 |
| Middle rate | 4.00 | 4.40 |
| Lower rate | 2.00 | 2.20 |
| Constant attendance allowance | ||
| Special maximum | 38.80 | 43.00 |
| Special intermediate | 2910 | 32.25 |
| Normal maximum | 19.40 | 21.30 |
| Half and quarter day | 9.70 | 10.75 |
| Comforts allowance | ||
| Higher rate | 8.40 | 9.30 |
| Lower rate | 4.20 | 4.65 |
| Allowance for lowered standard of occupation (maximum) | 19.32 | 21 .44 |
| Exceptionally severe disablement allowance | 19.40 | 21.50 |
| Severe disablement occupational allowance | 9.70 | 10.75 |
| Existing annual rate £ |
Proposed annual rate £ |
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| Clothing allowance | ||
| Higher rate | 65.00 | 72.00 |
| Lower rate | 41.00 | 46.00 |
| Existing weekly rate £ |
Proposed weekly rate £ |
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| Death benefits: | ||
| Widow's pension—private's widow: | ||
| Standard rate | 38.45 | 42.70 |
| Childless widow under 40 | 8.88 | 9.86 |
| Widow's children | 10.85 | 11.25 |
| Rent allowance (maximum) | 14.65 | 16.25 |
| Motherless and fatherless children | 11.65 | 12.15 |
| Age allowance for elderly widows | ||
| Ages 65–69 | 3.75 | 4.15 |
| Age 70 and over | 7.50 | 8.30 |
| Adult orphans | 29.60 | 32.85 |
| Widower's pension (maximum) | 38.45 | 42.70 |