HC Deb 18 February 1975 vol 886 cc355-6W
Mr. Tom King

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science when he expects to pay retired teachers additional money due to them as a result of the new war service provision.

Mr. Armstrong

Invitations to claim will start to be included with instalments of pension despatched from about mid-March. Claims must then be examined and a revised award calculated in eligible cases. Payments are likely to start in April and will be retrospective to 1st September 1974—or date of retirement, if later.