Important Bill Costing £8,009, 000 a Year London, Oct. 16, Over half " million more widows than now receive pensions will be entitled to ton shillings a week under @ Government Bill published to-day, amending the Pensions Bill of 1985, Operation of the Bill will cost about, £8,000:000 a year, Widows of 70 will automatically receive pension, without disqualification of reduction for means of residence and nationality, and pen-loners. will no. longer. lose their pension if they emigrate to the Dominions.
The Bill prolongs the right of widows under 85 to a pension til thole youngest. child is 16, instead of, as at present, fourteen and a Widows between 65 and 70, whose husbands were under "the Health Insurance Act, but who died before April 1, 1926, when widows? sions were instituted, will now be entitled to a pension-Reuter.
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