OLD AGE PENSIONS.
z * , ' NUMBER OF PENSIONERS AND COST.' (By Telcjcaub.-l'rtes Aisoclatlon -Oowrljbt I \ London, September 17. , ■> In the House of Commons tho Chaiiocllor of Exchequer (Mr. Lloydj-Gcorge), re- , i plying to Mr. F. W. Vorpoy, 'Liberal member, for Bnckingham, stated that the cost of old age pensions between January 1 and September 2 was m'follows.— '■ '' '' *• * ,£ England end Wftleß ~..;. 3,270,000 Ireland ' i 1,541,000 Scotland .}'.....! 693,000 ' The number of pensioners in tho three Vingdoms «as—. , England and iWales 410,000 ' Ireland ....'...,.1 , ,184,000 ' , . Scotland i., 73,008 ' . Thus tho number of pensioners flroportionttely to population was 11 per thousand in England and Wales, 42 per thousand in Ireland, arid 15 per thousand m Scotland.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 616, 20 September 1909, Page 7
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111OLD AGE PENSIONS. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 616, 20 September 1909, Page 7
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