A fight is being waged to save war pensioners' housing benefits.

There will be extra help for carers, guardians and war pensioners.

We will establish a new agency to carry out all social security war pensions work with the aim of providing a better, more efficient service to war pensioners and war widows.

Motability was set up in 1977 on the initiative of the government to help holders of mobility allowance and war pensioners' mobility supplement use their allowance to obtain a vehicle.

They are less likely to write anonymous letters to the DHSS about widows and war pensioners: 'After all' they say, 'how she lives is her own business: she (or her husband)earned her benefit'.

He served aboard the SMS Seydlitz and participated in the Battle of Jutland of 1916 during World War I. In 1918, he lost his commission and became a war pensioner after a serious illness.

Frederick William Holbourn (16 July 1896 - 1967) was a totally disabled war pensioner who worked to achieve justice for war pensioners in the United Kingdom in the years following World War I.

In 1877-78, Charles retired and moved to Le Mars, Iowa, where his son Winthrop worked as a McCormick Reaper agent, his son George owned a hardware company, and where his daughter Edwina soon married Byron Mudge, a Civil War pensioner.