§ 105. Mr. Willisasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty what modifications, additional to those caused by the Pensions Increase Act, it is intended to make in the scheme for reassessment of pensioners who served during the war.
Mr. DugdaleThere are two modifications to the original scheme. The first is that, in order to enable payments to be speeded up, the date by which the pensioner's final choice must become effective may be deferred to 1st April, 1949. In the meanwhile, payments, with arrears, will be authorised on whatever basis is to the pensioner's immediate advantage, without requiring him, at this stage to consider and decide on the long term advantages in his case of each of the two alternatives.
The second is that the re-employed pensioner or rating with equivalent length of service who chooses to remain an old code pensioner may now receive an increase of his old code pension for his additional service in the same way as those who elect re-assessment to the new code. These increases on old code pensions will be at flat rates as follows:
330WFor each year's war service in excess of 22 years' total service:
- For service as Petty Officer or above, 1s. per week.
- For service as Leading rate or below, 9d. per week.
The basic old code pension will remain increasable under the Pensions Increase Scheme, but these new increases will not be so increasable.