received no poor relief during a prio minimum.pension is 20 kroner ($5.36 granted may not exceed 200 kroner ($5 "Funds are administered in cities communities by the parish council, and as their salaries, 4 per cent. of all cont also elect two persons who audit the respective funds."*

LUXEMBUR

Luxemburg first established a comp invalidity insurance in 1911-12. The a earning not less than 3,000 marks ($715 sons earning not more than 3,600 marks o ut voluntary insurance.

The law also provides for institution and provides for the care of widows and

The pensionable age was first set at in June 1914, reduced it to 65 and Luxemburg subject who has completed and who proves that he has worked in days in an occupation subject to comp titled to an old age pension." Also "Lu January, 1912, are sixty-five years of that during the five years which immedi have regularly exercised in the Grand to compulsory insurance, shall be entit

*Report of Special Inquiry Relative to Aged and De p. 102.

ye's share from the wages.

The Act of 1914 m y mutual agreement, the retention of deduct e contributions due, may be postponed until his to be not later than December 31, of e re of contributions of agricultural workers, w own account and partly for others, shall be such persons. The amendment also provides t nittee of the Insurance Institution may requir sited by contractors domiciled in a foreign co ly employ in the Grand Duchy persons liable

s to this fund in 1912 were as follows: from ind eous occupations, 1,339,000 francs, and from a nes. The benefits paid out during the fiscal ye francs to the industrial and miscellaneous oc francs to agricultural workers.

NETHERLANDS.

on the 5th of June, 1913, a system of old age a e was established in the Netherlands. It provi rance of all workmen in the Netherlands over e not in active military service, and whose annu weed 1,200 florins ($482). This Act also applies en employed in a foreign country by Netherla e law exempts from compulsory insurance tho

Labour Office, Vol. 9, No. 7, p. 310, 1914.

for at least 5 years before he is entitled to

Persons subject to compulsory insura classes in accordance with the wages earn first class those earning less than 240 earning 900 ($361.80) or more florins. 1 vary from 20 cts. ($0.08) for the first cla week in the fifth class. The premium is p entitled to deduct from the weekly wages for the first wage class, to 24 cts., in th case of adults, and half the amount of th class in the case of minors. The employe the lower wage groups and bear an equal upper wage classes. Military conscripts. signed to the second wage class and their State.

The amount of the annuity is computed amounts to 325 times the total of the pr divided by the number of the weeks dur been insured. To this is added 14 per ce the premium paid up, which must not be original pensions. "In accordance with person who has paid 48 weekly contributio of 20 to the age of 70, and whose wages we of 25, $6 a week up to the age of $30, $7 a entitled to a pension of about $2.30 a week event of his becoming incapaciated at the that time onward receive about $1.25 a

nd female persons residing in Norway or bel Norwegian vessels, Norwegian citizens in Nory foreign countries and Norwegian citizens em tries in Norway, shall be compelled to insure nvalidity and old age. The insurance to begin

ars.

scheme provides for the payment of an invalidit existing when the earning power is reduced he normal-after four years of contributions and d of 26 weeks from the time of the invalidity. 500 crowns ($402) a year, he is not to be cons any condition. The old age pension matures lidity pension ceases as soon as an old age pens 1 and institutional care is also provided in th

osed that the cost of the administration of the borne by the state and the commune; the cost r, however, to be met by the contributions of t In addition, it is suggested that the commun 70) annually for every current invalidity pe of sickness or accident, the commune also to pa case the insured person is unable to pay them

ions are to be paid for 50 years, but persons o e exempt from payments. Contributions are to earnings but not less than two crowns ($0.54) a

Inquiry Relative to Aged and Dependent Persons in Massachusetts

persons. Since the national insurance bring about such a shifting of the socia that all persons who have ceased to pay persons who are not subject to insuranc tions, foundations, and societies, the inc taxed in the assessment on their stockhol must pay to the national insurance institu saving in taxes, the amount of which s basis of statistical computations." It is, total fund, in addition to the regular cont of the insured person's savings in poor re well as the current invalidity subsidy of make the pension uniform, a basic pensi 53 crowns ($14.20) per year is, therefore person regardless of the amounts of the pension is increased in accordance with t made, the economic conditions, and the n the insured person. An additional gra given for every child under 14. If both h ing a pension, 20 crowns ($5.36) for ev 14, is granted.

Contributions are to be collected along The employers are to pay the contribution as those of their employes' families. Th cost from his employe's wages. If the pe method of computation is too small, the crease.*

Proposed scheme of National Social Insurance for Norw the Norwegian Ministry of Finance. (Manuscript copy in Labor Statistics.)