NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE. BENEFITS, RECEIPTS (inclusive of EXCHEQUER GRANTS), ACCUMULATED FUNDS and and ADMINISTRATION.

and the Scottish Board of Health, and from information supplied by the Government of Northern Ireland.]

Thousand £. Thousand £. Thousand £. Thousand £. Thousand £. Thousand £. Thousand £. Thousand £. Thousand £. 5.408

(c)

1,077

3,317

659

10,461

2,760

803

3,563

(a) 1912-13

1914

Thousand £. Thousand

SCOTLAND.

Thousand £. Thousand £. Thousand £. Thousand £. Thousand £. Thousand £. Thousand £.

(c)

1,223

3,755

711

Thousand £. Thousand £. Thousand £. Thousand £. Thousand £. Thousand £, Thousand £. Thousand £. Thousand £. 6,138

6,458

1914

Thousand £. Thousand £. Thousand £. Thousand £. Thousand £. Thousand £. Thousand £. Thousand £. Thousand £.

OLD AGE PENSIONS.

No. 50.-NUMBER of PENSIONS PAYABLE on LAST FRIDAY in (including Allowances) PAID

(Compiled from the Annual Reports of the Commissioners of Customs

and by the Government

(a) Includes 408,194 cases in England and Wales and 54,637 cases in Scotland in which additional allowances varying from 6d. to 2s. 6d. were payable.

(b) The figures as to pensions payable for 1918 and 1919 include the following numbers of cases in which additional allowances of 2s. 6d. were payable:-1918, England and Wales 665,172, Scotland 89,206; 1919, England and Wales 651,632, Scotland 86,816.

OLD AGE PENSIONS.

MARCH in each YEAR, and the TOTAL VALUE of ORDERS during each YEAR.

and Excise and from information supplied by the Commissioners of Northern Ireland.)

(c) The totals for 1920 include "special cases" numbering 4,403 in England and Wales and 603 in Scotland, in which the pension had not been adjusted to the new rates under the Old Age Pensions Act, 1919. These cases are not included in the analysis by amounts of pension shown in the subsequent columns.

(d) The alteration in the means qualification in the Old Age Pensions Act, 1924, resulted in an increase, both in the number of pensions and in the proportion of pensioners paid at the maximum rate. This Act applies to Great Britain only. Table continued on next page.

OLD AGE PENSIONS.

No. 50.-NUMBER of PENSIONS PAYABLE on LAST FRIDAY in (including Allowances) PAID

(Compiled from the Annual Reports of the Commissioners of Customs

and by the Government

(a) Includes 120,412 cases in Ireland and 583,243 cases in the United Kingdom in which additional allowances varying from 6d. to 2s. 6d. were payable.

(b) The figures as to pensions payable for 1918 and 1919 include the following numbers of cases in which additional allowances of 2s. 6d. were payable:-1918, Ireland 176,951, United Kingdom 931,329 1919, Ireland 173,258, United Kingdom 911,706.

OLD AGE PENSIONS.

VALUE of ORDERS

MARCH in each YEAR, and the TOTAL during each YEAR-continued.

and Excise and from information supplied by the Commissioners of Northern Ireland.)

(c) The totals for 1920 include "special cases," numbering 262 in Ireland and 5,268 in the United Kingdom, in which the pension had not been adjusted to the new rates under the Old Age Pensions Act, 1919. These cases are not included in the analysis by amounts of pension shown in the subsequent columns.

(d) Excluding Irish Free State.

(e) See note (d) p. 59.