Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Bob Ainsworth (Labour), on Thursday, 26 June 2014, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 68 members in total.

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WAR WIDOWS' PENSION

That this House is deeply concerned about the anomaly whereby war widows awarded a pension between 31 March 1973 and 5 April 2005 lose their entitlement if they co-habit or re-marry, whereas those widowed before and after those dates do not; and calls on the Government to rectify this unfair discrimination, affecting some 4,000 widows, by allowing all of them to keep their pensions for life, as advocated by the War Widows' Association of Great Britain.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

187 

Session

2014-15

Other sponsors

Lord Dodds of Duncairn

James Gray

Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston

Chris Williamson

Baroness Hoey

Subjects

Pensions War widow(er)s Remarriage

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk