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| Department for Work and Pensions |
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the oral contribution
of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Pensions of 27 March 2017, Official
Report, column 16, what estimate his Department has made of the cost of that alternative
proposed by the Work and Pensions Committee to permit a defined group of women who
have been affected by state pension age changes to take early retirement, from a specified
age, on an actuarially neutral basis; what the costs in that estimate of (a) means-tested
benefits, (b) national insurance contributions, (c) changes to working patterns and
taxation, (d) unfunded public sector pensions schemes, (e) bus passes, (f) winter
fuel payments, (g) other non-means-tested benefits and (h) setting up, operating and
communicating that alternative were; and what estimate his Department has made of
the likely take-up of that alternative and the effect of that take-up on its estimated
costs.
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