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date	23/02/2017
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to make changes to the state pension rules for cohabiting, unmarried couple to allow a cohabitee to claim extra state pension payments after their cohabitee's decease.
tabling member constituency	Ogmore
tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
uin	65248
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2017 answer text <p>We have no plans to extend access to state pension based on a deceased partner’s National Insurance contributions to surviving members of cohabiting couples. This is a feature of the old State Pension system for surviving spouses and civil partners who reached State Pension age before 6 April 2016 and, except as provided by transitional arrangements, will not apply to people in the new State Pension.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 02/03/2017 15:20:52 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

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registered interest
date	20/10/2016
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, if he will meet representatives of the Women Against State Pension Inequality campaign.
tabling member constituency	Ogmore
tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
uin	49721
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2016 answer text <p>I am responding on behalf of the Secretary of State (SoS), as Minister for Pensions with overall responsibility on this issue.</p><p>The previous Minister Baroness Altmann and Minister Shailesh Vara (the previous Under-Secretary of State for DWP) met with representatives of the WASPI group on 29th June 2016 to listen to their concerns. Although WASPI’s ask was unclear, at the time, Ministers indicated that the DWP did not have the available funds to deliver further concessions.</p><p>One other outcome from that meeting was that WASPI agreed to explore options with the relevant All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG). A meeting between APPG representatives, the SoS and myself is being taken forward, and consequently there is nothing further to be gained from meeting WASPI representatives directly.</p><p>I should add that I have been quite clear that the Government will make no further changes to the pension age or pay financial redress in lieu of a pension.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 27/10/2016 14:45:15 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore