Pension

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31340, 10 April 1967, Page 12

Pension

Sir, —Will the Social Credit candidate comment on the cowardly system the Tories and Labour have of working out the increased cost of living for old-aged pensioners? —Yours, etc., FAR BACK DAN. April 3, 1967. [Mr J. J. Forster, Social Credit candidate for Fendalton, replies: “It has always been my belief that our oldaged pensioners, along with other sections of the community, should share in the results of increased productivity, and this principle is now embodied in the league’s policy. Under past and present governments the attitude has been that, for people who are not producing, a subsistence level only is necessary and consequently, while the wage and salary earner, as well as the farmer and the manufacturer, can use their influence and power in the community, including strikes, to gain increased economic benefits, the pensioner, now non-productive, has neither power nor voice to influence the Government, except the vote. However, changes in Government have never brought the desired effect .of keeping the pension on a par with the continued rise in prices.”]