BRITISH PENSIONS PLAN
#-_a— MANY APPLICATIONS FROU BLACK-COAT WORKERS (BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.) , RUGBY, July 19. Nearly- 295,000 applications hav( been received from persons wishinj to become contributors under th< pensions scheme for black-coatec workers, which was brought int< being by the passage of the Pen sions Voluntary Contributions Ac last year. ' More than 210,000 applicants hav< already been accepted. A big in crease in the volume of application! is expected towards the end of thi: year, as the i period during whicl specially advantageous terms" an offered to older applicants expire: at the beginning of 1939. It is estimated there are somi 2,000,000 men and women outsid< the scope of the existing widows' orphans*, and old age pensioners scheme' who are qualified to insuri for a pension under the new act.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22459, 21 July 1938, Page 11
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