# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S647
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FINANCIAL MATTERS 647

also to 3 workers who received Support only, as well as 4 widows
and 1 orphan.

40. Complicated situations, particularly in Brazil, and the
spiral of inflation which has hit both South American countries,
prompted the Board of Support and Pensions to pass the following
resolution at its meeting on February 11, 1956:

41. Forasmuch as the Resolution passed by the Fort Wayne
Convention in 1941 (see page 381, Section II, C, c) 3, a.b.c., is no
longer applicable to present conditions, the Board of Support and
Pensions requests Synod to rescind the resolution passed at the con-
vention in 1941, stipulating that our South American workers shall
receive 75% of the minimum Pension in U. S. currency; not only
because paying a Pension in U. S. currency at $75 a month is con-
trary to the policy fixed by Synod’s Board of Directors, that salaries
in any foreign land shall be paid in the coin of the realm, but
also because the payment of pensions in U. S. currency would
presently provide benefits in excess of the average cash salary
obtaining in either the Argentina or the Brazil District.

42. And we also request that Synod resolve, in its stead, that
the Board of Support and Pensions be empowered to adjust the
Pensions in the Argentine and Brazil Districts each year after the
average salary of workers in Brazil, respectively in Argentina, has
been determined, keeping in mind also the value of the coin of
the realm, such Pensions to be at least 60% of said average salary,
increased by 15% because the pastor or teacher has the free use
of a dwelling, and not to be more than 66%% of the average annual
salary basis. And that the Pension because of disability be com-
puted in exactly the same manner as that of the Retirement Pen-
sion; and that the Widows’ Pension shall be 60% of the worker’s
Pension.

43. The Board of Support and Pensions also resolved to request
Synod to pass a resolution that the payment of benefits be made
on the basis of actual participation, with the provision that the
deductions because of Social Security benefits will thereby be done
away with. This means that the pension so determined and calcu-
lated will be paid in full regardless of any benefits accruable to
such a retired worker, or to his widow, from participation in the
Social Security program of his respective country.

44. The ceiling on the wages of a retired worker in Argentina
or Brazil shall also be adjusted by the Board of Support and
Pensions — and shall be in line with the ceiling of wages obtaining
here in the States.

45. The Death Benefit in behalf of South American pastors
and teachers shall remain at 75% of the Death Benefit obtaining

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