WAR PENSION RATES
INCREASES IN BRITAIN
Rec. 9 a.m
LONDON, Dec. 18.
A White Paper announces that new war pension rates affecting 900,000 people and costing £9,000,000 a year will come into effect from the first pay day in February, 1946. A private soldier with 100 per cent, disablement will in future receive 45s instead of 40s a week. The rates follower degrees of disablement will be Increased proportionately, and also the rates for widows and for n.c.o.s.
One important new concession is that a pensioner of either world war may receive an allowance in respect of his family, provided the marriage took or takes place within ten years of the end of his war service. Officers do not benefit under the new rates, but are eligible for a special hardship allowance where they are incapable of resuming their former occupation.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 148, 20 December 1945, Page 7
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