§ 62. Mr. R. E. Winterbottomasked the Minister of National Insurance why persons in receipt of supplementary pensions were not given the full benefit of the recent increase in pensions.
§ Mr. PeakeAs supplementary assistance is based on need, some reductions in assistance were inevitable as the result of the new rates of pension and assistance fixed in the summer. But over three-quarters of the pensioners concerned have received the full benefit of the new pension rates. Of the remainder, all except a small number have had their incomes increased.