§ 37. Brigadier Clarkeasked the Minister of Defence why the retired pay of Regular officers who were commissioned after 30th June, 1949, will be abated when they qualify for National Insurance 135W retirement pensions on reaching the age of 65 years; how the amount of reduction is assessed, and why; and when officers of the three Services were notified that their retired pay would be so reduced.
§ Mr. SandysAfter the introduction of the National Insurance scheme in 1948, it was decided that retired members of the Civil Service and the Armed Forces who were receiving old-age pensions should have some deduction made from their Service pensions or retired pay. The rate of abatement for the Armed Forces is 4d. a week for each year of service reckonable for retired pay. This rule was adopted and published by the Service Departments in 1949 and applies to those who entered the Services after June of that year.