§ 1. In approving an increase to the supplemental allowance payable to the flat rate to wives without children, consideration has been given to any possible defects in the present system of administration.
§ It is clear that women are not made sufficiently acquainted with the fact that these grants are payable, and the Ministry of Pensions is issuing a special notice calling their attention to the supplemental allowances which may be granted to wives under certain circumstances.
§ The administration by the local war pensions committees of these allowances is, undoubtedly, very unequal. The Ministry of Pensions is consequently issuing a Circular, calling the attention of such committees to the alterations in the Regulation dealing with this grant, as approved by the Government, and pointing out that the grants for the childless wife are to be paid as a matter of course in every case where the woman is unable to 293W work, was unaccustomed to work, or where she is unable to obtain work without change of residence. The Regulations of the Special Grants Committee are being amended accordingly.