Social Security Benefits

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30535, 2 September 1964, Page 16

Social Security Benefits

Sir, —Your Parliamentary reporter tells us that pensions have increased faster than wages. In the nineties a full-time ploughman’s wage. 15s a week, was 100 per cent higher than the pension. In the thirties the pension was nearly 100 per cent higher than a road-maker’s pay at 10s a week. Today wages are 300 per cent higher than the pension—£15 to £s.—Yours, etc.,

FAR BACK DAN. August 31, 1964.

Sir, —Regarding this whole business of social security I’ll doubtless have many critics, but I’ll have to risk that,’ forgetting all this political persuasion on either side. I feel, although I am not a senior citizen myself, they should get a little more in their old age, after a life of service to the country. Have they not been paying into the Social Security Fund directly and indirectly for many years? Elderly people have been known to die in a kind of poverty; why should this be? Old age is a sad thing and r feel a good pension could be their reward and birthright. I was informed in Sweden that the pension

is about £2O a week. Those who criticise “Far Back Dan” need not accept their rise.— Yours, etc., CHARITY STARTS AT HOME. September 1, 1964.