OLD AGE PENSIONS
PROVISION FOR BLIND PEOPLE BRITISH PROPOSALS (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, Sept. 11. The Minister of Health has announced that he will propose in the new session of Parliament that old-age pensions should be given to blind persons at 40 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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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22985, 14 September 1936, Page 9
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76OLD AGE PENSIONS Otago Daily Times, Issue 22985, 14 September 1936, Page 9
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