A boost for veterans

Vernon Small at Stuff reports:

The Government is giving as one-off 5 per cent boost to the War Disablement and Surviving Spouse pensions as part of a $60m package for veterans spread over five years.

Prime Minister John Key told the Returned and Services Association National Council the changes came in response to the Law Commission’s report into the War Pensions Act. The Government had accepted in part or in full 132 of the 170 recommendations in that report.

The 5 per cent increase would cost $5.8m and would cut in on April 1, 2013. It would come on top of the forecast inflation increase of 1.8 per cent.

I doubt few, if any, will begrudge this.