She said that her dividend payments stopped in December 2012.
Harrison has been under pressure since details emerged last week of her dividend package.
She also received a £232.40 discount in tax credits on her dividend income.
And her dividend,her irreducible, like violetdown, thrown to the seals, starfish,wolf spiders on the edge-of-Pacificfloor, I like to follow herfrom matter into matter, my little quester,as if she went to sea in a pea-greenboat.
I spent a fruitless couple of hours trying to find details of her dividend payments, to no avail: for all I know, she may live in a wooden shed, and hand back any personal takings to be spent on books, sports equipment and teacher training.
A source close to Harrison said her dividend was justified because the success of the work programme cannot be measured in a single year: "Data published a year into a brand new programme that will run for years and deals with the most difficult-to-reach members of society is no benchmark for comments about failure or success".
In the late 1970s, Scheiber's stockbroker, William Fay of Merrill Lynch & Co., persuaded her to use some of her stock dividends to buy municipal bonds -- a sensible move for a woman in her eighties, since, in the short term, bonds are less risky than stocks.
Ms. Lasher-Adelman said the widow could expect to pay taxes on her funds' dividends, capital gains taxes on any stocks that the funds sold at a profit and at least a 28percentt capital gains tax on any portion of her funds that she held for less than a year before selling.
By E. J. Kahn The New Yorker, October 3, 1953 P. 21 According to a lady we know, a widow who lives on a modest investment income, the only bright financial spot for her during these past weeks of dipping stock-exchange values was the receipt of her 1st dividend from the Florida Power Corp.
