# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S382
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

882 Financial Matters

of $30, resp, $15 a month (instead of the contemplated $40, resp. ,

$20 a month), but payable in U.S. currency. The retired workers 4

and the widow’s Special Benefit shall be reduced in the amount of “§

the Government Pension received by the respective beneficiary.
Action of Synod: This agreement was accepted.

Concerning Section II, GC, e), Committee 12 recommended:

That Synod continue to pay the operating expense of the
Pension System.

Action of Synod: This recommendation was adopted,

Concerning Section II, C, 9), Committee 12 recommended:

That Synod instruct the Board of Directors to make the neces-
Sary appropriations for the periodic examination of our students .%
at our colleges and seminaries according to a former synodical |
resolution. a ,

Action was postponed until Committee 1 endorsed the above
recommendation, with the following amendment:

The Board of Directors shall determine how the additional
expense is to be met. ;

Action of Synod: This recommendation with the amendment
was adopted. ;

Concerning Section II, C, h), lay workers in the Pension Plan,
and considering also the request of Memorial 814, the Committee.
recommended:

That the matter of lay workers doing secular work in the
employ of the Church who cannot qualify for State or Federal
Social Security be submitted to the Board of Support and Pensions
for further study, that it report its findings and recommendations
to the Board of Directors of Synod, and that the Board of Direc-
tors take action to include these workers in the plan of Pensions.

’ Action of Synod: This recommendation was adopted.

Concerning chaplains on duty the Committee recommended:

That Synod, through its Army and Navy Commission, pay the
employer’s contribution to the Pension Fund for reserve chaplains
on active duty who are members of Synod’s Pension Plan, for
Lutheran service pastors who are members of Synod’s Pension
Plan, and for other pastors who are called into the service of the
Church by the Army and Navy Commission and who are mem-
bers of Synod’s Pension Plan.

. Action of Synod: This recommendation was adopted.

Committee 12 also brought in the following recommendations:

That Synod encourage the worker to make arrangements with
his salary-paying board or organization to deduct from his salary