PENSIONS FOR BLIND AT 40
PROPOSAL IN BRITAIN. (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, September 10. The Minister of Health (Sir Kingsley Wood) has announced that he will propose in the new session of Parliament that old age pensions should be given to blind persons at 40 1 years of age. There are 70,500 registered blind -persons in the United Kingdom, of whom 25,000 receive the old age pension which, on account of their affliction, at present begins at 50 years of age.
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Southland Times, Issue 22994, 14 September 1936, Page 7
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