Brigadier-General WRIGHTasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the number of instances in which applications for the old age pension have been refused because the applicant was unable to produce satisfactory evidence of age; and 1518W whether any official assistance is given to infirm or illiterate applicants to enable them to secure such evidence?
Mr. SAMUELNo record is kept of claims to non-contributory pensions under the Old Age Pensions Acts, 1908 to 1924, rejected merely because the applicant cannot produce satisfactory evidence of age, but such cases are believed to be very few. Every possible assistance is given by pension officers to all claimants, the official birth and census records being searched gratuitously.