Single Women (Elderly Dependants)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Pensions and National Insurance – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 1 August 1966.

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Photo of Miss Peggy Herbison Miss Peggy Herbison , Lanarkshire North 12:00, 1 August 1966

Certainly. Mostly these are single women, many of whom have had to give up their jobs. At present there are 9,500 of these women who are receiving an allowance from the National Assistance Board. The new provisions in the Ministry of Social Security Bill will be of great assistance to those women and very often to the old people of whom they are taking care.