§ MR. J. MACVEAGHTo ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that in some cases pensions officers are objecting to claimants on the ground that their husbands obtained out-door relief, although the claimants themselves were not applicants for, and sometimes not even recipients of, the relief; and whether, for the guidance of pension officers, he will make it clear that applicants for pensions should not be disqualified unless they were actual applicants for relief.
(Answered by Mr. Lloyd-George.) I am advised that any person who receives benefit from the relief, whether the nominal recipient or not, is a person in receipt of poor relief within the meaning of Section 3 (1) (a) of the Old-Age Pensions Act, and is consequently subject to disqualification. Pension officers have been instructed accordingly.