Pensions
Sir, —Last week my wife and I collected our pension, due on August 2; also a voucher for back pay and payment in advance for a total of 16 weeks. This extra backdates the pension to May at 10 guineas a week. We both greatly appreciate this substantial increase, and to our worthy Prime Minister and his colleagues who have made this possible we say a great big thank-you. W e will collect the next instalment of pension before the week-end and will then have at least £65 to bank. Incidentally, the pension now, for a married couple, is more than what I was earning in wages when the National Party came into power in 1949. God bless them!—Yours, etc., WELL SATISFIED. August 31, 1966.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31153, 1 September 1966, Page 14
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