ENGLISH PENSIONS.
THE RESTRICTIONS CRITICISED. DY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPTMOHT. . (Rec. Juno 3, 11.26 p.m.) London, June 3. The text of the Old Ago Pensions Bill is criticised on the'ground that it introduces inquisitorial machinery and numerous restrictions. I ■, Under the operation of the disqualifications with which ho has fenced-in his seventy-year old ; age pension—i.e., weekly incomo limit of /10s. for single persons . and ,15s. for married, alien, lunatic, recent 'serious criminal, and actual Tfcceipt'of Poor .LawTelief—Mr:- Asquith estimates' 'that" tile" portsioiT willreach 1 500,000 septuagenarians.;.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 21, 4 June 1908, Page 7
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85ENGLISH PENSIONS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 21, 4 June 1908, Page 7
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