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From: "Margaret Hothi" <>
Subject: Re: Family Allowance
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 14:16:56 -0000
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I'm pretty sure that Family Allowance (later Child Allowance) didn't start
till after the war, and it was initially 5/-, not 7/-. I don't think this
had anything to do with payments for evacuees. I can still remember as a
small girl going with my mother to the P.O. to collect our first week's
Family Allowance.
Margaret
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Subject: Re: [PORTSMOUTH-GOSPORT] WW2 evacuation


> Hi Linda & Tony,
>
> This may refer to Family Allowance which was 7/- per child although as a
> family you could never claim the allowance for the first child. This goes
back a
> very long time since I have a document in my collection referring to the
> parish supporting wives and children of soldiers called up for the
Napoleonic
> Wars to the tune of 1/6d per child and the same for the wife. Once again
> nothing was paid for the first child. I am sure if one put in Evacuees
> in Google one would find a site dealing with this issue.
>
> I have a Public Information Leaflet No 3 but this does not mention
financial
> support only that Portsmouth, Gosport and Southampton were some of the
areas
> to be evacuated.
>
> Mike
> Waterlooville
>
>
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