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1366192

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date	04/11/2021
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department has taken in the last 12 months to support those affected by (a) changes to state pension age for 1950s-born women and (b) the communication of those changes.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	69664
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2021 answer text <p>This Government is committed to providing a financial safety net for those who need it, including when they near or reach retirement. Support is available to those who are unable to work or are on a low income but are not eligible to pensioner benefits because of their age.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 10/11/2021 16:09:47 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1366232

registered interest
date	04/11/2021
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent steps her Department has taken to mitigate the effect of state pension age changes on women born in the 1950s.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	69665
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2021 answer text <p>Raising State Pension age in line with life expectancy changes has been the policy of successive administrations over many years, dating back to 1993.</p><p>Parliament set out in successive Pensions Acts fair transitional arrangements when it introduced the changes to State Pension age. There are no plans for further transitional provisions.</p><p>Scotland has the powers under the Scotland Act 2016 to make additional discretionary payments should it wish to do so.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 10/11/2021 16:07:40 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day