The Austrian Ministry of the Interior has approved statute providing for the establishment of a fund of 550 million schillings to be distributed to political persecutes now living abroad over an 11-year period. It is expected that applications will probably begin to be accepted in May for a period of one year from persons who were persecuted between March 5, 1933 and May 8, 1945. Maximum benefits allowable will be 70,000 schillings.
Person whose health was permanently injured as a result of imprisonment or mistreatment will receive 30,000 schillings if their earning capacity has been reduced by 70 percent; 20,000 schillings if reduced by 50 percent; and 10,000 schillings, if reduced 30 percent. Widows of persecutes who died as a consequence of imprisonment or mistreatment will receive 20,000 schillings. Determination of amounts will be made by a commission consisting of a president and eight members–half of them Austrians–in accordance with proposals put forward by political persecutes organizations, the Jewish communities and Catholic and Protestant groups.
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