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1659056

registered interest
date	07/09/2023
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, in the context of married women who reach state pension age prior to 6th April 2016, whether it is his Department's policy for a woman who draws a category A state pension prior to her husband reaching pension age and who is widowed after her husband reaches pension age and draws his pension should be automatically assessed at the point of being widowed for a backdated category BL pension in the case where her category A pension is lower than the Category BL rate; and whether a woman over pension age with no entitlement to a category A state pension, and who is widowed after her husband reaches pension age and draws his pension should automatically be assessed at the point of being widowed for a deferred Category BL pension, with her date of claim treated as the date when her late husband first drew his pension.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Wendy Chamberlain
uin	198410
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2023 answer text <p>For married women who reach State Pension age prior to 6th April 2016 the Department’s policy is as follows.</p><p> </p><ul><li>For those in receipt of a Category A state pension based on their own National Insurance contributions and whose husband became entitled to his state pension on or after 17th March 2008, a Category BL pension will be paid automatically by the Department. There is a LEAP exercise currently underway to identify and correct some historical cases where this did not happen.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>For those in receipt of a Category A pension and whose husband became entitled to his state pension before 17th March 2008, including where someone is widowed, a claim is required in order for the Department to be able to assess entitlement to any Category BL pension.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>Women who have not made a claim for and are not receiving a state pension at the point they are widowed must also make a claim to become entitled to a state pension based on their late husband’s National Insurance contributions. If it is their preference, they can get any Category BL pension backdated for a maximum of 12 months before their claim. They may also be entitled to a deferral payment (one-off lump sum or an additional weekly amount) for the time they have deferred their Category BL pension. <strong><em> </em></strong></li></ul> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 13/09/2023 11:10:00 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4765 label Biography information for Wendy Chamberlain

1583017

registered interest
date	01/02/2023
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, how many and what proportion of the women born in the 1950s affected by the increase in state pension age have died before reaching their state pension age since 31 December 2015.
tabling member constituency	Orkney and Shetland
tabling member printed	Mr Alistair Carmichael
uin	137765
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2023 answer text <p>We have not undertaken the requested analysis and therefore do not hold the information you have requested.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott grouped question UIN 137766 question first answered 06/02/2023 16:24:24 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	1442 label Biography information for Mr Alistair Carmichael

1583020

registered interest
date	01/02/2023
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 make a comparative assessment of the number and proportion of women affected by the increase in state pension age for women born in the 1950s who died before receiving their state pension (a) between1948 and 31 December 2015 and (b) since 31 December 2015; and whether there are statistically significant differences in those mortality rates.
tabling member constituency	Orkney and Shetland
tabling member printed	Mr Alistair Carmichael
uin	137766
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2023 answer text <p>We have not undertaken the requested analysis and therefore do not hold the information you have requested.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott grouped question UIN 137765 question first answered 06/02/2023 16:24:24 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	1442 label Biography information for Mr Alistair Carmichael

1581351

registered interest
date	26/01/2023
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, whether his Department is taking steps to provide support to women who have been affected by changes in the state pension age.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	133768
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2023 answer text <p>The Government decided over 25 years ago that it was going to make the State Pension age the same for men and women. Had the State Pension age not been equalised, women who would be retiring today upon reaching the age of 60, would be expected to spend (on average) over 40% of their adult lives in receipt of State Pension.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is providing over £20m for a new enhanced offer through our 50+ Choices programme to support people aged 50 and over to remain in and return to work.</p><p> </p><p>We are also committed to providing a financial safety net for those who need it, including when they near or reach retirement through the welfare benefits system</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Government understands the pressures people are facing with the cost of living and is taking action to help. To ensure stability and certainty for households, in the Autumn Statement the Government has announced £26bn in cost of living support for 2023/24. This includes Cost of Living Payments for the most vulnerable households, an additional £1 billion, including Barnett impact, to enable the extension of the Household Support Fund in England in the next financial year. In England this will be delivered through an extension to the Household Support Fund backed by £842 million and the amended Energy Price Guarantee which will save the average UK household £500 in 2023-24.</p><p> </p><p>The Government's Energy Price Guarantee will save a typical British household around £900 this winter, based on what energy prices would have been under the current price cap - reducing bills by roughly a third. This is in addition to the £400 non-repayable discount to eligible households provided through the Energy Bills Support Scheme.</p><p> </p><p>Pensioners who are entitled to a Winter Fuel Payment for winter 2022 to 2023, have received an extra payment of £300 per household paid with their normal payment. We estimate around 8.7 million pensioner households across the UK have received an increased Winter Fuel Payment. Households with someone of State Pension age received £500 and households with someone aged 80 or over received £600.</p><p> </p><p>This increased Winter Fuel Payment has been paid on top of any other one-off support a pensioner household is entitled to, for example where they are on Pension Credit or receive eligible disability benefits. The Government committed at the Autumn Statement on 17 November 2022 to a further pensioner cost of living payment of £300 per household to be paid in winter 2023/24.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 02/02/2023 10:19:13 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1580066

registered interest
date	24/01/2023
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, how many women in (a) St Helens and (b) Merseyside are claiming a state pension.
tabling member constituency	St Helens North
tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
uin	131233
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2023 answer text <p>In the quarter ending May 2022 the State Pension caseload for women in the St. Helen’s Local Authority was 19,161.</p><p> </p><p>In the quarter ending May 2022 the State Pension caseload for women in Merseyside was 140,772.</p><p> </p><p>The table below shows the State Pension caseload for women in the Local Authorities of Merseyside in the quarter ending May 2022.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Local Authorities of Merseyside</p></td><td><p>Number of Females</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Knowsley</p></td><td><p>13,576</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Liverpool</p></td><td><p>37,976</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sefton</p></td><td><p>33,531</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>St. Helens</p></td><td><p>19,161</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wirral</p></td><td><p>36,528</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total Merseyside</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>140,772</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Source: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dwp-benefits-statistics-november-2022" target="_blank">DWP benefits statistics: November 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 31/01/2023 14:47:31 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn