War pensions are almost certainly the most ancient type of social security. Plutarch's Life of Solon mentions a law which provides that those who are maimed...
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A pension (/ˈpɛnʃən/; from Latin pensiō 'payment') is a fund into which amounts are paid regularly during an individual's working career, and from which...
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Irene Triplett (section Pension)
recipient of an American Civil War pension. Her father fought for both the Confederacy and later the Union in the war. Triplett was born in 1930 to Mose...
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the time due to the possibility of receiving pensions as dependents of Civil War veterans; the pensions were known for their generosity. Some of these...
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Congressional pension is a pension made available to members of the United States Congress. As of 2019[update], members who participated in the congressional...
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veterans could be living with the syndrome, with 1,300 claiming a war pension for conditions connected to their service. In 2007 the Royal British Legion...
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Campaigns: Pension Transactions refer to the years after the Revolutionary War, when there are thought to have existed around 80,000 pension applications...
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passed a law stating that women who married Civil War veterans would not be eligible for a widow's pension. The law was later changed in 1939 to state that...
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verified veteran of the American Revolutionary War. He was confirmed a veteran of the war and awarded a pension of $500 semi-annually by House Bill 1044 (passed...
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A pension (UK: /ˈpɒ̃sjɒ̃/, US: /pɒnˈsjoʊn/; French: [pɑ̃sjɔ̃] ) is a type of guest house or boarding house. This term is typically used in Continental...
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Disability benefits (redirect from War Disablement Pension)
being injured while in the armed services after 6 April 2005. War Disablement Pension is paid to people who became disabled as a result of an injury...
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Benjamin Jackson (sailor) (category Canadian people of the American Civil War)
Hall. Jackson earned a Civil War pension for more than 50 years, though he had to navigate the intricacies of the US Pension Office system to maintain and...
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pension fund. Open pension funds support at least one pension plan with no restriction on membership while closed pension funds support only pension plans...
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Lady Chatterley's Lover (2022 film) (category American World War I films)
wife's new partner, Ned, comes by the cottage, seeking part of Oliver's war pension as they are not yet divorced. There, he finds evidence of Connie. Ned...
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original on November 26, 2014. Retrieved November 14, 2014. "Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land-Warrant Application Files (p. 7)" (PDF). National Archives...
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wanted to keep tariffs high. Cleveland's opposition to American Civil War pensions and inflated currency also made enemies among veterans and farmers. On...
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from the original on 13 November 2012. Retrieved 8 January 2010. "The War Pensions and Armed Forces Compensation Chamber". Tribunals Service. Archived from...
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Primus Hall (section War pension benefit)
the War of 1812. In the 1830s, Hall filed a suit for a pension as a Revolutionary War soldier because he had been denied a pension by the pension commissioner...
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Hugo Gutmann (category German Jewish military personnel of World War I)
applied for a veteran's war pension, which was granted (President Hindenburg had passed several decrees protecting Jewish war veterans from the rising...
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(1759–1869) – Continental Army. Last veteran drawing a pension awarded by Congress; granted a pension in 1867 even though he could not prove his service....
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Bureau of Pensions to oversee an increasing number of veterans' pensions in 1832 following the granting of pensions to all American Revolutionary War veterans...
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A veteran's pension or "wartime pension" is a pension for veterans of the United States Armed Forces, who served in the military but did not qualify for...
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James Earp (section Civil War service)
portal American Civil War portal Biography portal Kansas portal Arizona portal California portal James C. Earp Biography Civil War Pension Index Card for James...
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Daniel F. Bakeman (section Post-war)
1869) was the last survivor receiving a veteran's pension for service in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783). Bakeman claimed that he was born on...
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720 in war reparations, but the direct cost of the war to Australia had been £376,993,052, and, by the mid-1930s, repatriation pensions, war gratuities...
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Benjamin Harrison (category People of Indiana in the American Civil War)
Dependent and Disability Pension Act, a cause he had championed in Congress. In addition to providing pensions to disabled Civil War veterans (regardless...
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continuation Deadwood: The Movie (2019). U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 California, Death Index, 1905-1939 1861...
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original on November 26, 2014. Retrieved November 14, 2014. "Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land-Warrant Application Files (p. 7)" (PDF). National Archives...
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Bonus Army (category Aftermath of World War I in the United States)
Army expelled the war veterans from Philadelphia.[citation needed] Congress progressively passed legislation from 1788 covering pensions and bonuses, eventually...
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occupational and personal pensions. The state pension is based on years worked, with a 35-year work history yielding a pension of £203.85 per week. It is...
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