AGE BENEFIT
Sir,—Your correspondent, “Sixtythree” has evidently not worked out the problem of the 2s 6d a week. If an elderly person does not apply for his benefit until some years after he is eligible to get it, he does not get any more benefit, but is allowed to have an extra income of 2s 6d a week for each year he does not get the benefit, besides the £1 10s already allowed, apart from earned income. This seems to me to be what is intended. By the way, I have read about it in the newspapers, and it appears to me that the inference that a beneficiary will receive an extra 2s 6d weekly for each year he does not apply for his benefit, is very misleading.—Yours, etc., I’D BE AN X IT. August 29, 1950.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26204, 30 August 1950, Page 5
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137AGE BENEFIT Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26204, 30 August 1950, Page 5
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