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Mrs. Wise
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many retirement pensioners claim supplementary pension.
Mr. Alec Jones
As at November last about 2,047,000 retirement pensioners were receiving supplementary benefit. This figure includes wives entitled to retirement pensions on their husbands' insurance and also national insurance widow beneficiaries over pension age and constitutes about 25ยท4 per cent. of the total number of retirement pensioners at that time.