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Many of you will be receiving a War
Disability Pension for hearing loss. This is fine, but only gives you
between 0% and 30% Pension.
It is our aim to get your pension
increased to 70% or more. The reason we want to do this is to protect
your Spouse in the event of your death. We would also like to put more
money in your pocket too of course.
A War Disability Pension at 70% or more
automatically entitles your Wife/Partner to a Surviving Spouse Pension
which is currently being paid at $260.24 per fortnight. It also
entitles your Wife/Partner to a Funeral Grant.
Veterans Pension
Once you have achieved the 70% requirement
you are able to transfer from N.Z. Super to a Veterans Pension. This
has a number of advantages, for example, if you are hospitalized for
more than 13 weeks your Veterans Pension does not stop, like N.Z. Super
does.
How do we get you to 70%? At
present there are over 70 different medical conditions that may be
attributed to War Service. I think it would be fair to say that each of you has one or
more of these conditions. How do you feel about that?
Here are just a few you may have: Anxiety
Disorder, Arthritis, Blood Pressure, Peripheral Artery Disease, Lumber
Spondylosis, Heart Disorders, Skin Cancers, Diabetes Type II, Cataracts,
Emphysema, and so the list goes on. Many of these conditions are
related to smoking. If you smoked during service your claim for these
conditions will be more favourably looked at. The Government, through
Veterans Affairs, has taken the responsibility for your smoking.
If you do not have a War Disability
Pension, or you have one and it needs to be reviewed, please arrange to
see the War Pensions Advocate, Reeve Morgan, either at the Club or at
your home. These procedures cost you nothing except a visit to your
own Doctor.
Reeve can be contacted either through the
Club (telephone 863 8860) or private telephone (863 7772).
Please do avail yourself of this service,
if not for you, then for your surviving Spouse/Partner.
Welfare
Waihi Memorial
RSA provides welfare services designed to assist ex-servicemen and
women in need, whether or not they are members of a Returned
Services’ Association. The RSA Club appoints a Welfare Officer to
co-ordinate these services and to give advice on the various
community services available to ex-service personnel and their
families.
How We help
RSA
welfare assistance ranges from monetary grants for those in
financial difficulty, to help with practical tasks, visiting the
sick, and offering friendship and support in times of need.
War Pensions and Allowances
War
veterans and ex-servicemen and women may be entitled to a war
pension and a range of allowances from the New Zealand Government.
How RSA can help
Assistance with making applications is available to members and
non-members of the Waihi Memorial RSA through the Pensions and Welfare
Officer who may be contacted through the Club office.
Poppy Day Appeal
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