THE PENSION SCANDAL.
[To THE Eerroa OF THZ " SPECTATOR.")
Stn,—With regard to the article and correspondence which have lately appeared in your columns in reference to the "Pension Scandal," the following case may be of interest to your readers as showing how pensions and allowances are multiplied. A joiner in my village, having been an old Volunteer and member of the National Reserve, was employed for some months as a guard in an enemy prisoners' camp. After being in hospital he was discharged as medically unfit, and has since received an allowance of 8s. 9d. a week. Since discharge he has been in regular work in his own trade and is now earning over -RS a week. He has just brought me a printed letter from the
Pension Office inviting him to ask for an allowance for his wife, and enclosing a form for the purpose. Is it to be wondered that
there is a " Pension Scandal "?—I am, Sir. de., J. W.
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