Mr. R. Duckworthasked the Minister of Pensions the sources and amounts of income taken into consideration in determining awards of allowances to disabled ex-Service men undergoing treatment of their war disabilities.
§ Sir W. WomersleyThe principle underlying the grant of treatment allowances is to compensate a man for the loss of wages sustained through the necessity for treatment and, therefore, if he continues to receive wages, or receives sick pay or similar benefit, these payments, with the exception of National Health Insurance benefit, are taken into account in assessing his treatment allowances.
Mr. R. Duckworthasked the Minister of Pensions the steps taken to implement his promise that his Department would go carefully into the 25,000 cases of 100 per cent. disablement and their eligibility for the new unemployable supplementary allowances.
§ Sir W. WomersleyAs a result of the wide publicity given to this new provision my Department has received 9,000 applications, of which some 4,850 have been successful and 730 have not yet been settled. Fresh applications are continuing to reach my Department, which goes most carefully into every case.