HC Deb 09 July 1940 vol 362 c1097W
Mrs. Adamson

asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether, in calculating means for the purposes of supplementary old age pensions, the war savings of both husband and wife who are pensioners are ignored or that of only one of them?

Captain Crookshank

Legislation will be necessary to enable war savings to be excluded from the calculation of means for the purposes of unemployment assistance and supplementary pensions. It is the intention to provide in this legislation (which will, I hope, be introduced shortly) for the consideration of war savings for those purposes of each member of the household separately whose resources fall to be taken into account and for their disregard up to a proposed limit of £375.