VICTORIA CROSS PENSION
(Eeceived 13th November, 2 p.m.)
LONDON, 12th November.
In the House of Commons Mr. Tom. Shaw, Secretary for War, in answer to a question, said that provision existed for increasing the Alctoria Cross pensions to £75, in6lusive of other pensions, where recipients were unable to earn a livelihood by reason of age or inedi« cal infirmity.
Colonel Lambert-Ward: "Then there is a means test."
Mr. Shaw: "The practice of the last, few years implies a question, o^ means."
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 117, 13 November 1929, Page 12
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