§ 50. Mr. Beswickasked the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance if, in view of the fact that one week's unavoidable absence from employment, at between 65–70 years of age, though properly credited, can lose a pensioner and his wife 2s. 6d. per week in future pension increments, he will provide for some limit below which credits are permitted to count for increments.
§ Mr. Boyd-CarpenterThe present provisions by which increments of pension for deferred retirement must be earned by paid contributions for weeks of work appear to me to he sound. The full number of increments can be earned in this way, even though there are up to ten weeks' unavoidable absence from work between the ages of 65 and 70.