# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S872
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872 Financial Matters

4. Support Statistics

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1938 308 494 520 1,547 14 824 $240,839.66 $2,750.00 $243,589.66
1939 303 514 502 1,548 43 846 244,909.23 5,400.00 250,309.23:
1940 307 522 476 1,525" 76 845 256,962.70 6,600.00 263,562.70.

5. To those Support beneficiaries who have been members
the Pension Fund, respectively to their widows, we remitted the
earned Pension annuities in the amount of $3,457.75 together with
their Support allowances. This amount will increase from year ,
to year and will eventually supplant practically all present Support
grants, provided all workers and congregations will participate.
in the Pension. ,

Total Pension annuities disbursed in 1940: $3,580.33.

6. The increase of our Support disbursements is due not only.
to the larger number of applications, but chiefly to the fact that
the old-age benefits and the death benefits are provided from bud-..
get funds and included in the Support appropriation.

7. For the sake of information we state the six types of bene-
ficiaries on our roll. ,

a. The great majority became beneficiaries of the Support
Fund before the institution of the Pension System and are to be
provided for on the old plan.

b. Support beneficiaries whose claim is doubtful because they .
applied after the institution of the Pension Fund without having ©
joined it.

c. Pension beneficiaries (8) accepting only their earned an-
nuity and making no claims on synodical support.

d. Pension beneficiaries (55) receiving Support in addition
to their earned annuities.

e. Pension beneficiaries (65) receiving only the special old-age
benefit in which their Pension annuity is included.

f. Pension beneficiaries (11) receiving the special old-age
benefit, including their Pension. annuity, plus a Support allowance
upon application.

8. Our basic Support rates ($35 for married worker, $25 for
single worker, $18 for a widow, $7 for a child) should be revised
upward in view of the increasing cost of living and for other
reasons. Synod should instruct the Fiscal Conference to make
the necessary appropriations.

9. The budget appropriation for Support as presented in the
“Synodical Dollar” graph and the reports always includes the
earnings of the endowments, which in 1939 amounted to $100,325.81.

* Adding 65 old-age beneficiaries and 44 wives receiving no additional
support: Total, 1,634. Seven Pension beneficiaries not in need of support
accepted their small earned annuities totaling $122.58 in 1940.