WIVES AND CHILDREN OF MARRIED MEN
The new weekly rates are as follows
| |
Private
& Corporal |
Sergeant |
Col.
Sergeant |
Quarter Master
Sergeant
|
Warrant
Officer
1st Class
|
Wife |
12s. 6d. |
15s. 0d. |
16s. 6d. |
22s. 0d. |
23s. 0d. |
Wife & child |
17s. 6d |
20s. 0d. |
21s. 6d. |
27s. 0d. |
28s. 0d. |
Wife & 2 children |
21s. 0d. |
23s. 6d. |
25s. 0d. |
30s. 6d. |
31s. 6d. |
With 2s. extra for each additional child.
These rates include the usual allotment of 3s. 6d. a week for privates and corporals, and 5s. 10d. for other ranks.
Adopted children are admitted. The ordinary limit of age for children is now 16, and the allowance is continued up to 21 in certain cases (for higher education, apprenticeship on a nominal wage, or physical or mental infirmity). Soldiers marrying AFTER enlistment are now eligible.
An extra 3s. 6d. a week is paid in the case of soldiers living in the London postal area at the time of enlistment if the families continue to live there.
Forms of Application for Separation Allowance can be filled in at the Recruiting Office.
MOTHERLESS CHILDREN
5s. a week clear for each child.
OTHER DEPENDANTS OF UNMARRIED SOLDIERS AND WIDOWERS.
If a soldier who is unmarried or a widower (or one whose wife is not drawing separation allowance because she was living apart from him before the war) had any person or persons (whether related or not) including children, actually descendant upon him before he enlisted, the Government will pay that dependant a weekly sum provided the soldier contributes a share (one third or less) of the amount. The intention is to allow to the dependant, within certain limits (see below), the same amount weekly that the soldier paid him or her before enlistment, less any portion that went to pay for his own keep.
As an example, if the soldier had paid 17s. 6d. a week in peace to his mother, and 7s. 6d. of this was needed for his own keep, the allowance admissable will be the remaining 10s. towards this the soldier will contribute 5d a day from his pay.
The amount the Government will pay to any one dependant of a soldier will not exceed the amount of separation allowance for a wife (see table above), but that limit will be raised if more persons than one were dependant on the same soldier.
To secure an allowance the soldier must complete form C. 1838 (which will be given to him at the Recruiting Office), and hand the completed form to his Commanding Officer within one month of enlistment.
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NOTE: As it is impossible to explain all the classes of cases on a poster, intending recruits can obtain fuller information from the two pamphlets for married and unmarried men, revised to 1st March 1915, which they can get at any Post Office"
