UK - The defence secretary Geoff Hoon has overturned a tribunal decision which could have resulted in partners of unmarried ex-servicemen claiming pension benefits, a BBC news report said.
The High Court today ruled that the Ministry of Defence was entitled to limit benefits for “budgetary reasons”, the BBC report added. Frank Hopkins, a retired soldier from Falmouth, had been see...
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