Oral Answers to Questions — Naval and Military Pensions and Grants. – in the House of Commons at on 9 December 1929.
Major Jack Cohen
, Liverpool Fairfield
asked the Minister of Pensions whether officers and men granted an allowance under the scheme recently announced in connection with claims submitted outside the seven years' time limit will be eligible to receive assistance under all the regulations of the Special Grants Committee; and whether widows of men who at the date of death were in receipt of an allowance, as mentioned above, will also he eligible for consideration under the Special Grants Committee regulations?
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