HC Deb 20 March 1884 vol 286 cc304-5
SIR H. DRUMMOND WOLFF

asked the Secretary to the Admiralty, Whether the Admiralty will consider the ex- pediency of giving the age pension to pensioners who had retired from the service prior to 1878?

SIR THOMAS BRASSEY

The Order in Council of 1878 restricted the age pensions to 7,600, and limited the combined pensions from Public and Greenwich Funds to 2s. 6d. a-day. These restrictions were imposed in consequence of the rapid increase in the annual charge. Age pensions are payable from Greenwich Funds, and were given as a charity in lieu of an asylum. It would be inexpedient to admit that men retired at any particular date have a superior claim to pensions of this nature.