Old-Age Pensions—Poor Relief Disqualification.

HC Deb 24 November 1908 vol 197 c113

MR. SUMMERBELL

I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether he is yet in a position to say whether an old-age pension may be given to a woman who is fully qualified to receive a pension but whose husband is in receipt of outdoor Poor Law relief.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. JOHN BURNS,) Battersea

If the relief were given to the husband solely for his own support, the wife would not, I think, be thereby disqualified.