Requete will force States debate on widow’s pension rights

Tuesday 22nd March 2011, 11:30AM GMT.

Deputy Barry Paint DEPUTIES say they have been forced to move a petition after widow’s pension pleas were rejected by Social Security.

Campaigning States member Barry Paint (pictured) has put forward the requete motion after the department refused to recommend changing the bereavement grant system approved by the States in 2004.

He had hoped to see some movement on the issue after he and Deputy Jane Stephens met the department last month.

They argued that the switch to a bereavement allowance of just one year had caught out widows expecting a payment until the age of 65.

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Martino

March 22, 2011 at 1:14 pm

Another example of the extremely low calibre of some of our backward thinking thinking deputies whose only raison d’etre seems to be to jump on populist bandwagons and to try to undo progressive measures put in place by our more forward thinking deputies.
The entire notion of a ‘widow’s pension’ is sexist. If Deputy Paint has his way the only thing it will do, apart from cost the rest of us a cool million to put in place, is encourage fit and able women under the age of 65 not to work for a living. It beggars belief that our States are going to waste more of their time debating yet another non-issue.

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