§ 67. Sir W. Teelingasked the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance why Mr. J. Lewis 11/17/57901 of Clifton Place, Brighton, about whom the hon. Member for Brighton, Pavilion, has sent him particulars, has not been granted the allowance for a lowered standard of occupation when the Sussex War Pensions Committee recommended that his case should be reconsidered, in view of the disability he suffered in the First World War.
§ Mr. N. MacphersonThe allowance for lowered standard of occupation can be granted to a 1914 war pensioner if his war disablement makes him incapable of the occupation which he followed during the period between July, 1944, and July, 1945, or an occupation of equivalent standard. Further inquiries made following the recommendation of the Sussex War Pensions Committee confirmed that this condition was not fulfilled in the case of the pensioner in question, whose present occupation is of equivalent standard at least to that which he followed during the relevant period, and in the light of this further information the Committee decided that it could not pursue the case and informed the pensioner accordingly. I have written to my hon. Friend giving him full details.