§ Mr. A. Reedasked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that recently blind persons claiming pensions under the Old Age Pensions Act of 1936, and the Blind Persons Act of 1938, have had those claims disallowed or existing pensions stopped or reduced on the ground that a compassionate augmentation allowance paid to such claimants by the Exeter City Council, through the West of England Institution for the Blind, is to be considered as earned income; under what authority this is done; and what instructions he proposes to give in the matter?
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§ Mr. ElliotI would refer my hon. Friend to the reply which I have given to-day to the hon. Member for Birkenhead, East (Mr. White), a copy of which I am sending him.