§ 12. Mr. Peter Freemanasked the Minister of National Insurance whether he is aware that a citizen in Newport, now aged 72, details of whom have been sent him, has been paying into the Old Age Pension Fund for about 20 years for himself and 48W his wife and is now refused a noncontributory old age pension because he was not insurably employed prior to 1940; that he was at that time and previously a semi-invalid and that it was therefore impossible for him to have been so employed, especially as he was then nearly 60 years of age; and whether a pension can now be awarded him or his contributions refunded.
§ Mr. PeakeI think the hon. Member is misinformed as the person to whom he refers is receiving a non-contributory pension at the full rate. The hon. Member has already had a letter regarding the separate question of the wife's claim to refund of contributions.