Oral Answers to Questions — Old Age Pensions.

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at on 2 July 1942.

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Photo of Mr Ernest Brown Mr Ernest Brown , Leith

I am informed by the Assistance Board that the normal rule in such cases would be to regard the woman as contributing towards the rent and other overhead expenses of the supplementary pensioner in whose house she is for the time being living a sum of from 2s. 6d. to 7s. a week according to circumstances.