OLD AGE PENSIONS.
A BRITISH BILL. LIBERAL PROVISION. B.V OABLB—PRESB ASSOCIATION — COPYRIGHT Received June 29, 9.25 a.m. LONDON, June 26. The House of Commons carried the financial resolution on which the Government bases the Bill amending the old age pensions and abolishing the restrictions under which limited private means, due to- thrift, disqualifies persons otherwise eligible. The Bill provides that a person over seventy, with an income of 25s weekly i s eligible for the full pension of 10s weekly, provided at least 15s of the- 25s is derived from unearned sources. Married couples having a joint income of 50s weekly will he illegible for a pension of 20s. Mr Snowden said he hoped shortly to submit a schern - fen- pensioning widows, especially widowed mothers, and reduce the age limit to sixty-five also. —Sydney Sun -afables.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 June 1924, Page 9
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