Another Pension Paradox
siR,—x.Y.z. is not the only one to suffer from being " self-employed and over 65." My husband was in Holy Orders for 34 years. When he died, after receiving a disability pension for one year of £137 10s.—all we had to live on—this princely sum died with him. - I could not draw the ordinary widow's pension, for he was termed " self-employed." I had to earn my own living. Since I cannot live on less than £70 per annum I must earn more, and therefore become ineligible for the old age pension at the age of seventy. There is a widespread misunderstanding that every widow and everyone over seventy gets a pension. This is not so.
I am not complaining, for I can earn my own living, but I think the fallacy that every old person is looked after by the present Government should be exposed before the election. It is simply not true.----Yours
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