FEWER PENSIONERS
STEADY BRITISH DECLINE British Official Wireless RUGBY, Sunday. A feature of the annual report of the Ministry of Pensions, which was issued to-day, is the reference tp the steady decline in the number of beneficiaries. ’ The persons in receipt of pensions or allowances from the Ministry at the end of the year totalled 1,584,850. They included 24,900 officers, 1,000 nurses, 488,000 men, 144,000 widows, 415,000 children, and 510,000 other dependants. Remarriages of widows last year brought a reduction in their total of 2,100. The pensionable a.ge-llmit of IB was reached by 65,000 children. There were 27,000 deaths. The total expenditure of the Ministry for the year was £ 59,800,000. This was about £3,300,000 less than the amount spent in the previous year.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 534, 11 December 1928, Page 11
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