§ Mr. RHYS DAVIESasked the Minister of Health whether the dependants of an insured member detained in an asylum, who are ordinarily entitled to sickness benefits under the Health Insurance Act whilst the insured is in an asylum, are deprived of further benefits after the insured reaches 65 years of age, when becoming entitled to contributory old age pensions, after 2nd January, 1928, or on the 5th July, 1928, if they were 70 years of age on or after that date?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINThe payments to the dependants of an insured person in an asylum are made out of the sum which would ordinarily be payable to the insured person himself by way of sickness or disablement benefit. As an insured person's title to these benefits ceases on his attaining the age of 70, or, 155W after 2nd January, 1928, the age of 65, the payments to the dependants must also cease at the same time.