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old age pension

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noun

  1. a former name for the state retirement pension

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Similarly, Tony Coleman asked: "What happens to my old age pension if I am living in France?"

From BBC Aug. 24, 2018

At issue are vast questions of what retirement is all about, what an old age pension is for, and how careers should be configured across an ever-lengthening life course.

From The Guardian Aug. 2, 2010

When Lloyd George's 1908 Pensions Act was introduced he was clear that the old age pension was to "lift the shadow of the workhouse from the homes of the poor".

From The Guardian Aug. 2, 2010

He sponsors Dr. Francis Everett Townsend's fabulous old age pension plan.

From Time Magazine Archive

Miss Robinson say she gwine give me old age pension.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 by Work Projects Administration

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