{"id":78806,"date":"2017-02-09T15:06:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T15:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=56f21949dadbd4bb43ea406ab5f1050c"},"modified":"2017-03-02T11:27:18","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T11:27:18","slug":"news-story-war-pension-scheme-payments-increases-from-april-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=78806","title":{"rendered":"News story: War Pension Scheme payments increases from April 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated:<\/em> Correct timescale for receiving pension letter included.<\/p>\n<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The new rates of pensions and allowances payable under the War Pension Scheme from 10 April 2017 have now been announced and are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/war-disablement-pension-2017-rates\">available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The rates have been increased by 1%, in line with the September 2016 Consumer Prices Index figure.<\/p>\n<p>Those currently getting a War Pension or War Widows(er)\u2019s Pension will receive a letter confirming their new pension details between 13 March 2017 and 15 July 17.<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p>Please note if you are a local authority or council office, please be aware of the timescales above, the letter confirms a breakdown of the pension and the new rates.  This is a system generated letter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>For more information on the War Pension Scheme and other compensation payable for injuries, illnesses or disablement related to service, please see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gov.uk\/claim-for-injury-received-while-serving\">www.gov.uk\/claim-for-injury-received-while-serving<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New rates of pensions and allowances payable under the War Pension Scheme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79410,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78806\/revisions\/79410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}