Welfare Column Archive

Previous Welfare Column articles.

September 2010
You've got to get on with your hearing aid. Most of us are aware that hearing loss can be caused by excessive noise. And that many servicemen and women will suffer because they are exposed to small-arms fire and the crash of larger weapons...

July 2010
Some people are not claiming the surviving-spouse pension – because they don’t know the pension exists, because they don’t know it could apply to them, because they have received bad advice...

March 2010
My husband and I went for our usual New Year tramps during the mid-summer break.  We did both the Milford Track and the Humpridge Track down in the South Island...

December 2009
RNZRSA was asked to join a consultative group chaired by Liz Baxendine the Age Concern New Zealand President on how to ensure that, in particular, older people could obtain the help and services they need from ACC...

September 2009
I thought that we should return to some basics on War Disablement Pensions. Who can claim, what do you need to do, what do you need to provide?...

May 2009
All pensions and allowances were increased by 3.38 per cent from 1 April this year. The new tables are...