HC Deb 18 February 1932 vol 261 cc1826-7
89. Mr. JOEL

asked the Minister of Pensions the number of cases within the last 12 months in which pensions have been refused to widows whose husbands had been receiving pensions as a result of disabilities due to war service but who died, according to the medical opinion of his Department, from causes unconnected with the disability specified?

The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of PENSIONS (Lieut.-Colonel Headlam)

During the last calendar year some 1,200 claims had to be rejected because the husband's death could not be certified as having resulted from his military service, and in the great majority of these cases the Ministry's decision was confirmed on appeal by the Independent Appeal Tribunal.