BRITISH WAR PENSIONS
(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) '.Australian and N.2. Cable Association)
LONDON, Dec. 30. Despite the five years since the end of the War 57,261 fresh pensions claims were made in 1924. The aggregate number of pensions in connection with the war has thus far totalled 2,010,000 awards, the beneficiaries thereof numbering 4,525,000 • but only 1,131,000 pensions Were operating in ‘March, 1924, when there wove 2,215,000 beneficiaries, 265,000 being wives and 759,000 children. About 66 per cent, of the awards thus far made to widows have ceased owing to remarriages. The total expenditure in pensions for the year was £72,230,000, being £34,417,000 below the maximum in 1921.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 31 December 1924, Page 5
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