OLD AGE PENSION DEDUCTIONS
(To the Editor.)
Sir, —I am an old age pensioner and | have complied with the necessary yearly rules attached to receipt of the pension. My earnings for the year 1937 werp put in at £61 by the waterside labour bureau, also £11 from the Druids' Lodge for sick pay. The Pensions department issued to me the pension card for this year for £25, which I refuse to take on account of the way that the pension is calculated. Firstly, the tax was taken out of <$very shilling I c irned on the wharves. The Pensions Department reckons it as money earned, also the £11 sick money from the lodge. Then the amount is taken off the next year's pension. ,In fairness and to be exact, I received last year £51 for work, also £11 sick pay. Why should these deductions be made? —I am, etc.,
H. G. SMITH.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 24, 29 January 1938, Page 8
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152OLD AGE PENSION DEDUCTIONS Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 24, 29 January 1938, Page 8
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