Welfare Column Archive
September 2005

Welfare & Pensions updates from RNZRSA Senior Advisory Officer Margaret Snow.

Health
The question was asked at the Pensions & Welfare Forum at National Council whether a person could have recurring malaria over many years. It seems that it does happen but that it need not happen.

War Disablement Pension
There are those ex-Army folks in particular, and probably from WWII who think that the only thing they can get a War Disablement Pension for is a gunshot or shrapnel wound, or perhaps a broken bone.