old age pension
[old a. 2.]
A pension paid in certain countries by the state or, less frequently, by a private institution, to persons who have reached a specified age and are eligible for such assistance; also ellipt., as old age. Used attrib. with act, scheme, etc. So old age pensioner, one who receives an old age pension.
| 1879 19th Cent. VI. 903 When the great clubs are able to mature the scheme which they are already entertaining for the payment of old age pensions. 1890 Chambers's Jrnl. 8 Feb. 88/1 To qualify..the worker must contribute..for an old-age pension for fourteen hundred and ten weeks. 1892 Q. Rev. Apr. 507 Old age pensions commence at seventy years of age. 1895 W. S. Cottew Scheme for Old Age Pension Fund 1/2 After all working and other expenses paid, interest, etc., to form an Old Age Pension Fund, and as a further addition to the fund, there shall be an Old Age Pension Rate, not to exceed one penny in the {pstlg}. 1906 Chambers's Jrnl. 10 Mar. 239/1 There are two possible systems for an old-age pension scheme for this country. 1908 Act 8 Edw. VII c. 40 §1 The sums required for the payment of old age pensions under this Act shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 4 Jan. 3/3 We..believe that the Old-Age Pensions Act was almost universally intended to create a new social stratum. 1910 G. B. Shaw Let. 24 July (1972) II. 936 A list..which includes a choice collection of old-age-pensioners. 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 4 June 441/2 The inspiration served its avowed purpose in providing him with ‘an old-age pension’. 1936 Act 26 Geo. V. & 1 Edw. VIII c. 31 §4 Not more than one old age pension..shall be payable to any one person. 1945 A. Huxley Let. 30 Jan. (1969) 514 A nation like England..by 1975, will probably have declined to under forty millions, one quarter of whom will be drawing old age pensions. 1951 Bull. Nat. Old People's Welfare Comm. Feb. 10 In one London Borough on a given day each week old-age pensioners may attend the Municipal Baths at a cost of 1d. per bath. 1959 Daily Tel. 9 Apr. 1/7 Old age pensioners had much to gain from stability of prices. 1967 K. Giles Death & Mr. Prettyman viii. 160 ‘Not the old-age?’... ‘The old-age for tax evaders? You're joking!’ 1973 A. Christie Postern of Fate iii. 127, I must go and talk to some old age pensioners at their club. 1976 Sunday Tel. 30 May 1/6 Sixteen old-age pensioners were injured..when a coach from Dundee crashed over an embankment. |