{"id":5683,"date":"2020-11-06T15:33:09","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T15:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/?p=5683"},"modified":"2023-04-06T13:38:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T13:38:28","slug":"war-pensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/war-pensions\/","title":{"rendered":"War Pensions"},"content":{"rendered":"

While researching issues surrounding the Ovcerseas Operations Bill, I did some reading on UK War Pensions, where there seems to have been a failure meet promises. Here are my notes …<\/p>\n

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  1. Commons library briefing on pensions \u2013 https:\/\/commonslibrary.parliament.uk\/research-briefings\/sn00568\/<\/a>, this looks at the change in the rules to allow all people in receipt of a War Widow(er)s’ Pension in April 2015 to keep it for life (regardless of remarriage or cohabitation) and at the campaign for reinstatement of pensions already surrendered.<\/li>\n
  2. War widows association FAQs here re the pension as compensation rather than an occupational pension \u2013 https:\/\/www.warwidows.org.uk\/faq\/<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Smith is a case on suing for compensation \u2013 Smith and others (FC) (Appellants) v The Ministry of Defence (Respondent) <\/a> they need to prove negligence by the MoD.<\/li>\n
  4. The consultation documents re compensation explain the position, direct link here \u2013 https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/919730\/20161128-Consultation_document_death_and_injury_compensation_scheme.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    While researching issues surrounding the Ovcerseas Operations Bill, I did some reading on UK War Pensions, where there seems to have been a failure meet promises. Here are my notes …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[140],"tags":[932,935,141,1609],"class_list":["post-5683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-defence","tag-military","tag-politics-2","tag-war-pensions"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/chelsea-pensioners-w650.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7763,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5683\/revisions\/7763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}