THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1936.
788 Per Cent Increase In Pensions In 15 Years! But- CIVIL SERVANTS HAVE LEGITIMATE
COMPLAINT REGARDING WIDOWS' FUND
THEY PAID $3,554,800 INTO FUND: GOVERNMENT TOOK $1,114,260
DEDUCTED FROM SALARIES: SURPLUS BECOMES PART OF COLONY'S “REVENUE”
"Telegraph" Special Representative CONSIDERABLE interest occurred as a result of the
disclosures made by the "Telegraph" last week re- garding the staggering burden the Hongkong taxpayer] is now called upon to face as a result of the increase in Government pensions appropriations.
With the passing of each year the burden has grown heavier and heavier,
In 1920 we paid only $266,320 to retired Civil Servants. By last year the total annual expenditure had increased to $2,070,000.
In fifteen years the Colony's pension bill has therefore increased 788 per cent!
More than half of the total of $17,170,000 paid in pensions since 1920 has been expended in the past five
years,
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Despite Government's budget for a decreased pension expenditure of $1,810,000 for the current year, as com- pared with the all-time high of $2,090,000 in 1934, there seems no indication that the heavy additions which have been imposed with the passage of each year will not con- tinue.
When the estimates for the current year were made, the dollar was based at 1s 8d. sterling. Almost im- mediately afterwards the dollar commenced to fall, until it reached its present relatively stable level of 1s, 3d.
If the Hongkong dollar were to remain in the vicinity of Is. 4d., it would be necessary for Government to find at least $2,100,000 for next year's pensions.
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Since the beginning of 1920, or 1901, under which the Colony. Hongkong has spent $17,170,000 pays a specific portion of its re- on pensions for Civil Servants, venue for Defence purposes. Police Officers and Widows and. Orphans.
Of this amount the greatest appropriations were made for Civil Service pensions, which have increased from $190,820 per annum in 1920 to $1,450,000 per annum in 1935 and $1,250,- 000 (estimated) for the current year. Police Department pen- sions, which accounted for only $45,000 in 1920, cost the Colony $370,000 in 1935.
Widows and Orphans pensions cost $30,500 in 1920. In 1935 they cost exactly a quarter of a million dollars,
THE OTHER SIDE
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In order to create a surplus, the 1908 ordinance provides for abatement of four per cent. of the
total salaries of contributors,
PROFIT FOR GOVERNMENT
This abatement of four per cent. has not only been sufficient to pay the $2,440,510 spent on Widows and Orphans' pensions during the past fifteen years. but has been so much in excess of requirements that it has pro- vided the Hongkong Government with a surplus of $1.114,260. In effect, Hongkong civil ser vanta during the past 15 yents have paid almost 60 per cent. more into the fund than widows and orphans have received from it.
HOW THE MONEY HAS
GONE SINCE 1920
Civil Servants Police Widows & Orphana Total
675,903
1920
$ 190,820
$ 45,000 $30,500 $ 260.320
1921
216,000
$6,000
40,900
312,000
1922
208,865
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69,626
54,630
393,111
1921
295,000
86,703
60,893
441.693
1924
353,800
115.000
66,000
1134,800
1925
509,000
113,700
77,580.
$60,280
1026
373,600
127.600
90,000
591,200
1027
433,310
143.543
99,050
1928
612,405
191,574
130,000
*893,979
1929
493,000
193,000
159,000
*847,000
1930
536,000
213,000
180,000
*528,000
1931
705,000
275.000
218,000
*1,228,000
1932
1,088,000
370,009
250,000
1,708,000
1933
1,300,000
1934
330,000
244,000
1,894,000
1,000,000
330,000
260,000
2,000,000
1935
1,460,000
370,000
250,000
2,070,000
†1936
1,250,000
320,000
240,000
1,810,000
Total Pensions l'ald since 1928 $17,170.186. *Includes a total of $115,000 Death Gratuities. ↑ Estimated.
A SIGHT ALL HONGKONG IS WAITING FOR
Overflow at Tylam Intermediate Reservoir on the Island, a night that will mean, when it happens, this year, the end of all water restrictions in the Colony.
ALL-RED AIR ROUTE AROUND WORLD: HONGKONG AS VITAL LINK?
The excess money they have That is the Hongkong public's paid into the fund does not go into side of the pensions question.
Trust, ns would ordinarily be the But if the public have a com-case with a similar fund run by plaint regarding the exhorbitant private institution. growth of pensions, the public Colony's general revenue.
Instead, it becomes part of the: zervants have an equally legitim- included in the budget as
complaint regarding the under the heading Reimburse AS a result of representations made by the Canadian
ate
handling of the Widows' and ments in Aid”. Orphans' Pension scheme.
Although payment of this pen- ston is shown in the Government's annual balance sheet it is, in fact, paid by the civil servants them- selves.
It is
such.
Department of National Defence, Canada may short- Government servants have ally be linked with Hongkong by air. legitimate grievance in that the surplus portion of the four per
It is understood that the Canadian Government has cent, assessment on their salar- urged upon the British Government the desirability of in- les does not go into a fund to augurating British air services between Vancouver and provide more generous pensions Hongkong and Vancouver and-New-Zealand, before the Of the total payment of $17,-
to-their-widows-and-orphans, but is taken by the Government contemplated Imperial Airways trans-Atlantic service be- 170,180 made for pensions since
920, the civil servants have con- as part of the Colony's revenue. tween Ireland and Newfoundland starts.
$1,114,260 EXCESS ributed $2,440,540, by means of a
Since 1920 the excess collected avy on their salaries, for Widows' ad Orphans' pensions. Thus the from government vervants in this ctual Government contribution manner has amounted to the extra-
wards pension during the past ordinary total of $1,114,260. This 5 years was not $17,170,186 but total, applied in a lump sum, is in 14,729,646,
excess of the Government surplus Control of the Widows and Or-for 1933, the last year in which
000, was vested in the Govern- expenditure.
Feeder services across the American continent from New- foundland to Vancouver would then provide an all-Red air route around the world.
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widows', and orphans' pensione
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Officers'
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to Fund Widows &
bral revenue, and were to ba 1020
Orphans
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30,500
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40,000
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60,003
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107,000
60,000
123,000
77,580
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90,000
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170,000
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110,000
175,000
190,000
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120,000 133.000 213,000
420,500
230,000
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304,000
244,090
380,000
200,000
307,000
250,000
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240,000
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