Increase in the dependency credit under the Staff Assessment Plan for the staff at Headquarters

IX. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE FIFTH COMMITTEE
894. Increase in the dependency credit under the Staff Assessment Plan for the staff at Headquarters

The General Assembly, Recognizing that an inequity of treatment exists under the Staff Assessment Plan between staff members with dependants and those without dependants, Resolves that, as a temporary measure, notwithstanding article 4 of General Assembly resolution 359 (IV) of 10 December 1949, the following dependency credits shall be given between 1 January 1955 and 31 December 19S5 to staff members stationed at Headquarters or at Washington, D.C.:

(a) A credit at the rate of $200 per annum shall be granted for a wife, or a dependent husband, or a dependent parent, brother or sister, or a dependent child, or a mentally or physically incapacitated child over 16 years of age;

(b) An additional credit at the rate of $100 per annum shall be granted for each dependent child for whom credit has not been granted under paragraph (a) above.

515th plenary meeting,
17 December 1954.
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