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1459272

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date	21/04/2022
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	Pension Rights: Cohabitation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of extending spousal pension rights to long term cohabitees.
tabling member constituency	North Down
tabling member printed	Stephen Farry
uin	157527
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>The legislative framework governing pension rights for spouses and civil partners applies to legacy State Pensions and members of contracted out occupational schemes. The New State Pension is fundamentally based on an individual’s own National Insurance contributions, subject to certain arrangements.</p><p> </p><p>Most occupational pension inheritance rights are either determined by the members when they choose how to draw down their pension pot, or are set out in scheme rules, and are therefore a matter for the sponsoring employer to determine as part of their reward and retention strategy.</p><p>The Government has no plans for legislative change.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 28/04/2022 10:52:11 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4856 label Biography information for Stephen Farry

1180492

registered interest
date	25/02/2020
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	Pension Rights: Cohabitation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department plans to bring forward legislative proposals to grant unmarried couples the same automatic right to benefit from their partner’s pension in the event of the death of their partner as exists for married couples.
tabling member constituency	Wallasey
tabling member printed	Ms Angela Eagle
uin	20391
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>Members of defined contribution schemes are normally able to nominate a beneficiary through an expression of wish form who may be a spouse, an unmarried partner or any other person. Trustees have discretion, but will generally give very significant weight to the member’s expressed wish. Where a member purchases an annuity, they nominate a beneficiary at the point of purchase for any survivor’s pension to which the contract entitles them.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Spouses of defined benefit occupational pension scheme members do not automatically receive benefits when the member dies. There are no statutory requirements for these schemes to provide a survivor or a nominated beneficiary benefits unless the scheme was contracted out of the additional State Pension, where the scheme provided a pension in place of the additional State Pension.</p><p> </p><p>Contracted out schemes must provide a survivor’s Guaranteed Minimum Pension for certain widows, widowers and surviving civil partners, reflecting the provisions in the additional State Pension. Any survivor benefits beyond this are a matter for the scheme rules and the sponsoring employer subject to HMRC tax restrictions. Some schemes may choose to provide survivor benefits for those who are not in a legal partnership, but they are not required to.</p><p> </p><p>There are no plans to extend these requirements beyond the surviving partner of a legal relationship.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 02/03/2020 14:22:32 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle

765185

registered interest
date	06/10/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Pension Rights: Cohabitation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 3 March 2017 to Question 652450, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the judgment of the Supreme Court of 8 February 2017 in the matter of an application by Denise Brewster for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland) [2017] UKSC8; and whether schemes will be required to revisit past cases where a survivor's pension was refused because no nomination had been made.
tabling member constituency	Islwyn
tabling member printed	Chris Evans
uin	105675
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>HM Treasury officials wrote out to public sector pension schemes in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland on 6 April 2017. The letter made clear that cases like that of Ms Brewster should be dealt with in line with the UK Supreme Court’s decision. Cases previously refused solely because of a lack of nomination form should be reconsidered and schemes should pay survivor benefits from the date of the member’s death in eligible cases, regardless of when a claim is made.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 16/10/2017 14:09:36 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4040 label Biography information for Chris Evans

693864

registered interest
date	23/02/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Pension Rights: Cohabitation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the judgment of the Supreme Court of 8 February 2017, in the matter of an application by Denise Brewster for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland) [2017] UKSC8.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	65240
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2017 answer text <p>The government is considering the Brewster judgment and the impact it has on public service pension schemes. The government will work with these pension schemes to understand what changes, if any, will need to be made.</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 03/03/2017 10:09:08 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham