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<p>A total of 660,782 Civil Servants are in receipt of a pension under classic terms.</p><p>
</p><p>Of those</p><ol><li><p>92,550 are in receipt of a widows pension and;</p></li><li><p>15,905
a widowers pension.</p></li><li><p>552,327 are in receipt of the classic pension</p></li></ol><p>
</p><p>50.47% (278,762) of retired Civil Servants in receipt of a classic pension
are women.</p><p> </p><p>The number of widows and widowers who have had their pensions
suspended is given in the below table.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Number
of pensions suspended in year</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year in which pension suspended</p></td><td><p>Widows</p></td><td><p>Widowers</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>42</p></td><td><p>48</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>MyCSP, the pension administrator, are unable to split the numbers based on
those remarrying and those cohabiting as their system does not record it in this manner.</p><p>
</p><p>The numbers provided are based on MyCSP’s current data holding and include
those that were suspended and have not since been restored on their system.</p><p>
</p><p>Where a spouse’s Guaranteed Minimum Pension (GMP) remains payable and only
the spouse pension in excess of this is suspended, MyCSP are unable to include these
in the data provided because their system will show the benefit as ‘in payment’ although
the excess element is suspended. Therefore, the record does not show as suspended.</p>
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