AMUSING APPLICATIONS TOR PENSIONS
During its administration of the Pensions Acts the Ministry of Health has received many curious, often amusing, applications. A woman applicant who, finding that she was not entitled to a widow's pension, claimed an orphan's pension in the alternative, on the ground that she had been an orphan for 45 years! A male applicant was asked to produce a certificate of baptism to establish his age. lie replied that he had never been baptised, but was prepared in submit in the rite at once if il would help him in secure a pension. Another applicant, asked lo slate his sex, replied that lie was a Congrcgalionalist; while a woman who had been replaced in her occupation by a man stated that she had lost her employment through "change (if se.v." A male applicant wrote that he had been "decapitated" for a number of years, obviously meaning that, he had been incapacitated. Another applicant, mollified :iii original claim lo a pen •im, by Matin:.', Hint, he desired mils In nhlaiii ;i new pair of spectacles
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 25 July 1929, Page 6
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178AMUSING APPLICATIONS TOR PENSIONS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 25 July 1929, Page 6
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