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EXP..,
More Victims
Eligible For Pension
Vienna (JTA) — The number
of Jewish Holocaust victims
eligible for Austrian
government pensions has
been enlarged, under a revi-
sion of the national in-
surance regulations adopted
by Parliament last month.
Starting July 1, Holocaust
survivors from Austria who
were born between May 10,
1930, and Dec. 31, 1932, will
become eligible for pensions.
Jewish victims of the Nazis
who were born before that
date could already claim
pensions under the existing
social insurance legislation.
Though not the full-
fledged reparations sought
of Austria by some Jewish
groups, the increase in
number of those receiving
pension money was welcom-
ed by the Committee for
Jewish Claims on Austria.
"We are pleased that our
intensive efforts to enlarge
the number of Jewish Nazi
victims from Austria who
will be entitled to obtain
pensions were successful,"
said Rabbi Israel Miller of
New York, who is president
of the committee.
Negotiations over the
measure had been going on
since March 1991 between
Jewish officials and repre-
sentatives of the Austrian
Social Affairs and Finance
ministries. The Jewish team
was headed by Paul Grosz,
president of the Jewish
community of Austria, and
by Miller and Saul Kagan of
the claims committee in
New York.
"There are some small
details yet, which still have
to be adjusted, but otherwise
these new regulations are an
obvious achievement for the
persons concerned," said Mr.
Grosz.
The changes came as a
result of one additional
paragraph in the 51st
amendment to the Austrian
social insurance law, which
was adopted in the Austrian
Parliament on April 21.
The amendment now takes
into account that Jewish
citizens who were 6 years old
at the time of the
"Anschluss" could not finish
their schooling here because
they emigrated or were
deported.
If they could have spent
their working life here as
normal citizens, they would
have naturally been includ-
ed in the Austrian social
security system. But the
Nazi takeover made that
impossible.
The wording of the law has
also been changed to em-
phasize that humanitarian
aspects will be a factor in
deciding who is entitled to
the pension money, rather
than a strict reading of the
juridical points of the social
security legislation.
The new law says that
people claiming pension
rights do not have to prove
prior social insurance mem-
bership. The only condition
is residence in Austria in
March 1938.
Neither the Austrian au-
, thorities nor the Jewish
community has any idea
about the number of Jewish
Nazi victims from Austria
still alive to claim the new
benefits.
Compromise
Ends Strike
Tel Aviv (JTA) — An 11-day-
old nursing strike that
crippled operations of
hospitals belonging to the
Kupat Holim Sick Fund
ended last week.
Both sides agreed that the
strike, with the considerable
suffering it caused to ailing
patients, could have been
largely avoided if both
nurses and management had
negotiated in better faith.
Instead, the work stoppage
dragged on while hospitaliz-
ed patients lingered on in
virtually empty wards.
The nurses were pro-
testing a 5 percent salary cut
to help balance the Kupat
Holim's finances under a
government-ordered econo-
my program.
Under the compromise
reached, nurses earning less
than $1,450 a month will not
have anything deducted
from their monthly salaries;
those earning between
$1,450 and $1,825 will be
given a 3 percent cut; and
those earning over $1,825
will see a 5 percent deduc-
tion.
The deductions, to be
registered as a long-term
loan to the Sick Fund, will
not apply to extra shift,
night work, Sabbath and
holiday duties, clothing
allowances and standby
payments.