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Terminal Grants

Volume 523: debated on Tuesday 16 February 1954

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  • (a) A terminal grant is payable to a Service man who gives Colour service after 31st August, 1950, and who when he is discharged, is entitled to a Service pension, to qualify for which he must normally have rendered at least 22 years' reckonable service.
  • (b) In certain special cases, 21 years' continuous reckonable service may be a qualification.
  • (c) Service men who, having entered into engagements to complete 21 or 22 years' service or re-enlisted to complete 22 years'service, are invalided with at least 12 years' reckonable service, may qualify for Service pension and hence for terminal grant.
  • (d) The rates of terminal grants, where it is granted in respect of 22 years' reckonable service, and in the cases where (as explained at (b) above) 21 years' continuous reckonable

    • service is a qualification for the grant, are as follows:—

    £
    Private (and equivalent rank in the other Services)100
    Corporal (and equivalent rank in the other Services)150
    Sergeant (and equivalent rank in the other Services)200
    Staff Sergeant (and equivalent rank in the other Services)250
    Warrant officer, Class II (and equivalent rank in the other Services)275
    Warrant officer, Class I (and equivalent rank in the other Services)300

    An invalided Service man who (see ( c) above) is entitled to the grant by virtue of not less than 12 years' reckonable service receives a proportion of the rate for 22 years'service, according to the length of his reckonable service, subject to a minimum grant of £100.

    Full details were given in Appendix II of Cmd. 8323 of 1951.

    SERVICE GRATUITIES

    These are set out in Command Paper 6715 of 1945, paragraphs 34 and 53.