Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Social Services – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 4 Rhagfyr 1973.
Is my hon. Friend aware that when a married pensioner dies his surviving spouse, also a pensioner, has to return the pension book for adjustment and is sometimes left without it for as long as six weeks, without any money during that period? Will he accept that, whereas in all the cases that have been brought to my attention there has been a relative or a friend to help out, it is deeply disturbing to consider that there may be pensioners living alone who are too old and too infirm to make representations?