asked the Minister for Local Government and Public Health if he will state explicitly what was wrong with the evidence submitted as to age in the claim of Mrs. Mary A. Gorman, of Barradrum, Streete, to the old age pension.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Westmeath Old Age Pension Claim.
When claiming a pension early in 1929 the claimant admitted she was only 23 years old when married. The official record of her marriage which took place on 8th April, 1889, corroborated this statement. On this evidence she would not yet have attained the age of seventy years.
The evidence submitted in connection with the appeal included a declaration in which two deponents asserted they both remembered that the claimant was married in the year 1889 and that she was then between 23 and 24 years of age. After careful consideration of all the evidence it was determined on the 23rd January, 1930, that the claimant was not entitled to any pension.